When doing this, high sample rates can be a bit noisy, although you can't normally hear it. I think PS Audio's advice is based on the fact that their ADC is actually done as DSD and this is then converted to PCM inside the unit. I think 96 kHz is plenty high enough for digitising vinyl so personally I would stick to that. Before I starting ripping discs everyone said how time consuming/complicated it is. I've been ignoring that and using 192 kHz.īut your thoughts on this would be appreciated.Īnd, speaking of appreciation, the more I play around with and get comfortable with the features of VS, the more I appreciate all the "stuff" that is built in and that it does.
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The NPC manual advises "capping" the sample rate at 96kHz, sayingīeyond that is "not recommended for best sound". How about another, hopefully quick, question. So much so, that I wasn't completely sure I wasn't just "hearing things". Your advice my conclusion from a SQ playback standpoint - but the differences are truly truly miniscule. Then you can use VinylStudio to defeat the RIAA curve built into the NPC and apply the correct curve in its place. The only esception to this advice would be if you are recording 78's or other old discs which were mastered with a non-standard curve. I would turn off equalisation in VinylStudio and use the curve built into the NPC (which, in effect, you have to use anyway). Its fine-grained metallic chassis has rounded corners, a color touchscreen towards the right end of the front panel, and a high-density fiberboard top panel finished in piano-gloss black. ( esp from Paul, re: the technical aspects) Like the PerfectWave DAC, a DirectStream DAC is a black or silver-gray box that measures 17 x 4 x 14 and weighs 19 pounds. Why not just "disable" the EQ curve in VS, record from the NPC, and be done?Īny input from either a technical, SQ, playback, or subjective impressions (ONLY if you've actually tried it both ways) standpoint would be appreciated. So I'm left with the impression that I've made a "round trip" to where I started. The VS instructions advise to "apply inverse RIAA first" then use the Standard RIAA Curve. Comment, SACD Layer - Denon DCD-1600NE -> PS Audio Nu Wave Phono Converter -> VinylStudio -> FLAC 96/24. VS has, as one of the options, the same Standard RIAA curve. The NPC has it's own RIAA curve which I'm told ( by PSAudio) is the (largely) Standard ( since 1954). In any case, if you convert to 24 bit there is plenty of dynamic range so -1,5dB is nothing to worry about, except perhaps for the effect on the playback volume.Ī question re: settings for the NPC and VS:Īpparently these companies both recommend each other, so I'm going to presume some 'compatibility'. When converting to PCM, the converter has an influence on the level of the resulting file and that might be what you re seeing here. I guess so, although there's no defined '0dB' level in DSD as there is in PCM.