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In the Thread: How to record FM broadcasts.
Post Subject: Holly cow! The Pussy might like it!Posted by Bud on: 11/4/2005
Romy,
The only card that seems serious is the Creative Live Drive series. They have the capability of encoding at HDCD sample rates and also have a front panal input / output fascia with many conntrols and buttons to explore and screw up with. I have not ever heard their electronics, other than as a sound card where they are very good, but Turtle Beach stuff may be better.
For a D/A converter I have long used Soundstreams only model. Has SE class A electronics from early Krell and with a change in one capacitor and two resistors per circuit is extremely natural and clear, plus it does not loose small signal information to noise due to phase problems. Definatly capable of reporting orchestral weight and pressure.
I was suggesting Yamaha's SCSI burner as it is the one that I used on the Walton disc and the forthcoming Mahler.
The Nero software reading at 488 times oversample, with jitter correction on, and 1 to 1 speed read and write, reading and writing to HD in MP4 and reading and writing from the hard drive in Red Book (AAC?), does seem to do the needed quality.
I am sure that if you burned a CD and sent it to us in a daisy chain, most of us would copy and send it on to the next person and all would then have a reference point to argue with you from.
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