Hi Zevele -
I have few thousands lps,one day i have to start to put some on my computer
2 questions
1-how much cost the Audiophile 2496 sound card?
CDN $250 around US $175, but you might have better access to the TerraTec 2496 with the built-in pre-amp.
2-If you want to rip a brand new lps ,or any lp mint,do you want to clean it?
If you mean a record cleaning machine, no. I've always used a Discwasher brush and never play any LP without using it first.
For now i put lps and 7" on minidisc,it is quite easy.But i did not try to find out how to put it on my computer.
I have a receiver hooked up to my Audiophile 2496 using the TAPEIN and TAPEOUT on the receiver, so the computer sits in the sound system just like a tapedeck. If you don't have your computer tied into a stereo system that's the advantage of the Terratec card, you can hook your turntable directly into the computer using the Terratec preamp.
Anyway,i have some hard to find music on tape,and i'am just afraid to start to put them on my computer
Why?
I'll check one of my LP processing apps has a preset in it to deal with tape hiss, from there it all depends on the quality of your source material.
There is another thing who bothers me: what do you get from lp to computer?
ADD ? AAD? or AAA? In fact i would like to get AAA .Is this possible or i'am just saying nonsense?
Not sure. Are we grading plywood, talking about analog to digital/digital to analog conversion or some sort of letter grading system for audio quality?
I'm sure there are lots of people on the board who know more about this stuff then I do. I'm just now starting to feel I've got a bit of a handle on LP Ripping but there are many features of the programs I use that I do not understand or that are just too cumbersome to use. a good example of this is declicking, I have the standard version of DCart32 but at US $99 you have to do one type of repair at a time then process the file again for the next repair.
There are two disadvantages to this method the first is
time and the second is that every time you process a wave file you degrade or change it somewhat. Wave Repair is the same in this respect. Wave Purity is better as cleanup is usually just a two step process and the Platinum version of DCart32 at $199 lets you apply multiple effects in one pass through the file. The main disadvantage of all these programs is that they work with 44.1 khz files so rounding errors introduced by the repair process have a larger impact on the result.
You mentioned mint condition or new LPs. If a lot of you records are in this category then I'd recommend using EAC. Take a nose profile from the lead in, use a noise reduction setting between 6 and 12 db to deal with tape hiss or surface noise and live with the result. The resulting sound will not be CD clean but if the material is good enough to listen to in the original format I think you will enjoy the results. I'm looking forward to the day that I can sit at my computer and jump around in my entire LP collection with the click of a button in MJ.
Take care
George