My biggest beef with Audacity as a repair tool is (pun intended) the Repair tool.I figured out fairly early in my experience with Audacity that the Click Removal tool is pretty useless; it inflicts too much collateral damage around the click. The Repair tool does a pretty good job of click removal, and its interpolation is OK. The issue is that the "width" of a repair is limited to 128 samples, and when you're dealing with files where the sample rate is 192k, there are inevitably going to be clicks that go on for more than .00067 seconds. Sometimes you can get away with removing a click in two or three passes without introducing some kind of audible artifact. Most times you can't.
Ya seriously. Amazing work there LFF. I listened to it through my phone with the re-400 and the dynamic range still shines through. Are all the pops,clicks, artifacts etc. the result of the AD conversion? I am assuming that they are not audible if you listen to it in analog or else it seems like there is very little point in vinyl.
God damn you guys are going to get me thrown out of my house! I went to a music store and was amazed at all the new release vinyl they had. The prices were only a couple dollars more than the CD's I bought. If you can find better masters, rip them to your hard drive, and have pretty albums to look at then vinyl sounds pretty awesome. Any A/D options other than the Hilo? I am thinking pro audio stuff might work better for A/D than D/A. I know the Benchmark DAC gets a lot of flak, but if you were to use something along those lines (measures well but doesn't sound good) to A/D is that going to negatively affect the sound? I am not sure if an A/D converter would impart a sound in the same way a DAC does.
Hell, I think the last Dirty Projectors had a 24-bit FLAC download.
