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In Reply to: RE: I'll second that! posted by tketcham on August 24, 2020 at 19:36:14
The CD rips and free lossless downloads I get are really good via the rpi/hdd transport. I tempted to get rid of all my CDPs.The vinyl recordings can be excellent but setting gain levels is a PITA - it's as easy to not get it to the right level as it is to not get both channels at equal levels. Means at playback I'm always adjusting volume with the vinyl and that sucks because randomizing playback is such a blast. Worse than that is I don't have a balance control which seems much more needed now that I decided to make recordings of vinyl.
What's neat about the vinyl recordings is that I can identify whether I used the XX2 or the 20xl and whether they were mounted on the Roksan or the Rega.
I've used a Sony CDR and a Tascam CDR for the bulk of my recordings. Given my ability as a recordist it would probably would have been a waste of money have used more enlightened equipment.
Edits: 08/25/20Follow Ups:
Using a CD recorder can be a bit of a pain. I used to have a Pioneer PDR-509 recorder but gave it away. I now have a Tascam digital recorder and use a fairly conservative recording level for all my LPs so I don't end up with clipping. But then I use Audacity to Normalize the recordings to a -1dB amplitude level. You can also even out mismatched channels. If there are a few extreme peaks in a recording that restrict the amount of amplitude adjustment I first use Loudness Normalization to bring the peaks down in amplitude to allow more headroom for the normalizing process. So now I can play my LP recordings at about the same level as CD rips and Hi-Res files.
Tom
Thanks! I use Audacity to set and label tracks so I'll check out normalizing volume with my next batch of recordings.
I did a few vinyl rips a number of years ago and when I listen to them now they sound bad. It was before I started tweaking my turntable and I can hear every flaw. Playing the same records now sounds better on the TT, and I've also tried the streamed versions and still think the LP sounds a hair better.
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