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In Reply to: Question About The Logistics of Putting LP's on CD's posted by Karma16 on April 14, 2007 at 06:30:40:
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Hi Bry,
I could use my laptop too. My biggest concern is the quality of the converters in my Dell Latitude. Also, it is getting a little old with its 2.1GHz processor and 1 Gig memory (maxed out). The internal half full disk drive is not big (40 gigs) but I do have large external USB2 disks available on my main machine as well as a 60 Gig portable LaCie drive I use stritly with my laptop.So, I probably have the computer resources to use the laptop. Have you found the sound quality is really, really good? I'm very picky about this.
I was thinking that the sound capability on my big machine would be better than the one built into the laptop but I don't know that for sure. The sound cabability on my main machine is the one that came with the Asus mother board. I personally custom built this machine optimized for Photoshop image processing. Unfortunately, I don't have any extra bus slots left to install a PCI bus based sound card. It's full; running two monitors (requires two video boards to allow separate color profiles for each monitor), three printers, and extra interfaces.
So, the sound capability of my main machine is also an unknown at this time. I think I should do some experimenting to find out exactly what I have and how good it is.
Are any sound boards available as outboard units that can interface via USB? If so, I could use it with the laptop and do the recording in the listening room. This could be a happy solution.
What are your thoughts on this? I know I sound like a newbe to this which I am so I appreciate your help.
M-Audio Audiophile USB.This is a self powered, stand alone ADAC that is capable of 24/96 resolution. USB out to the computer.
Audacity is a great FREE recording program that is capable of recording at 24/96.
Before upgrading, I used this setup with a Celeron 800mhz/250mb/WinME computer. Slow but worked.Your current laptop configuration is sufficient to perform the conversion in real time and without problems.
Audacity is a powerfull program. Realatively easy to cut a large file into tracks and perform any needed editing.
Best,
Ross
I'm also using the M-Audio box with very good results in the final CD-R product as heard on my Arcam Alpha 9.However, the M-Audio has no way to attenuate the signal at the analog input, so I have to take the output from the preamp-out of my Bryston B-6OP rather than the tape out (to avoid clipping on some Lps). This is rather inconvenient as using the headphone jack on the B-60 shuts off the output from the preamp!
I do all my recording at 16bit/44.1kHz, since I don't believe there would be any benefit to recording at, say, 24bit/88.2kHz first and rendering to 16bit/44.1kHz (unless,possibly, some noise shaping algorithm is applied), but I haven't tested this hypothesis.
HI Ross,
I'm not interested in hi rez digital. I'm mainly making these CD's for the car and maybe my main system if the quality is good enough. Primarily I'm interested in keeping compatability between all my CD players. If they sound as good as the capability I presently have I will be more than satisfied. CD's in my main system sound quite good.My main program source is vinyl.
I have a similar laptop like yours, a Dell Inpiron with 2.4G CPU and 1G RAM. I tried the build-in converter but the quality didn't cut it. I bought a USB Soundblaster with 24-bit converter for the job. The laptop speed is fully capable of handling this task; it breezes through only taken up 20% CPU usage. The sound quality recorded to WAV and burned to CD is indistinguishable from a RBCD of the same album.
Theo
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