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The input to my PC from my USB record deck does not sound too bad. I have tried Audacity and Vinyl Studio, which claims to capture USB 44.1 kHz 16-bit without alteration. Yet the recordings of both apps do not sound as good and contain occasional judders which are not in the input and break up most ...

Thanks to you both for your replies. I have been testing and may have found some losses through digital format conversion. Setting Sample Format to 32-bit float rather than 16-bit worked a lot better than before. Then I tried a simple test. Whilst recording in Audacity, I pressed the Record button O...

I recently bought a turntable with internal AtoD converter output on a USB 1.1 port. It samples 16 bits at 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz. I want to keep this simple. I would like to store the Deck’s USB output. Just the data it kicks out. No editing, no further sampling. Ideally I would like to do this mostly ...

Massive thanks, Steve, for your reply with great graphics.
You have shown me that my statement "Exaggerated Claims about A to D Sampling Rates" may be wrong.
I bow to your greater knowledge.

Wiki Audacity Sample Rates page http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Sample_Rates makes claims which are exaggerated. The page suggests: Analogue Frequency (kHz) ---------- 20** Sample Rate Required (kHz) -------- 44 This implies about 2 samples per full period of the analogue wave. I doubt this will r...