Digitizing Vinyl

[sterling shoote]

Today i digitized Saxophone Colossus, the Sonny Rollins album. I already had purchased an AIFF 24/192 download of the album; and, I thought it would be fun to see how my digitized vinyl would sound against the download. BTW, my cartridge is a Shure V15V-MR. My playback device is iTunes set to output 24/192; and, I output wirelessly with Airplay via Airport Express sending 16/44 to Sony pre/pro S/PDIF input. To my surprise after I matched volume as best I could the digitized vinyl was almost indistinguishable from the downloaded album, having removed pops when digitizing the album. Nevertheless, what was noticed was record surface noise, not much, but enough to allow me to better appreciate the download. Now, considering the download and the vinyl cost about the same, I think, while I'll continue to enjoy the vinyl I have, I will re think buying new vinyl. At any rate, nothing I did was more than just a fun exercise giving me some direction on where and what media I spend my entertainment money on.

 

[BMXTRIX]

Fun test, but reaffirms what has been said repeatedly, for years now: Cheap digital sounds as good as expensive analog.

You aren't really maximizing your audio overall unless you are using higher end speakers connected to a good A/V system with the best connections from start to finish. With digital, that's really going to be a direct PC connection with a digital connection and good sound card that doesn't introduce noise into the audio. For your turntable, you would know a great deal more than I do, but you need solid connections to your phone preamp connections and then to a good amp and speakers.

At the end, for a nothingth of the price of analog, the digital will sound exactly the same, with zero effort, 100 years from now and won't have any additional analog noise introduced into the system.

 

[slipperybidness]

Fun test, but reaffirms what has been said repeatedly, for years now: Cheap digital sounds as good as expensive analog.

You aren't really maximizing your audio overall unless you are using higher end speakers connected to a good A/V system with the best connections from start to finish. With digital, that's really going to be a direct PC connection with a digital connection and good sound card that doesn't introduce noise into the audio. For your turntable, you would know a great deal more than I do, but you need solid connections to your phone preamp connections and then to a good amp and speakers.

At the end, for a nothingth of the price of analog, the digital will sound exactly the same, with zero effort, 100 years from now and won't have any additional analog noise introduced into the system.

RPi makes a heck of a digi streamer!

Files reside on my tower PC or local to the RPi on a micro SD card or USB stick (or internet radio). RPi reads the files and sends the data to a DAC connected to GPIO pins, utilizing I2S protocol!

Basically, mainlining the digi signal to the DAC

Kali board supplies filtered power to the Pi and DAC, and it also has its reclocker.

https://volumio.org/
https://volumio.org/product/allo-kali-piano-2-1-bundle/