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Gale Andrews
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by Gale Andrews » Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:38 am
kozikowski wrote:So I would not assume USB is natively noisy. It's frequently broken, yes, and it's easy to install wrong, I'll certainly give you that. But that doesn't mean USB sound is automatically noisy or defective after it becomes digital.
I would hope USB could
not get corrupted once it is digital. But as I understand it, the argument is that analogue noise sources can still leak in before finally converted to digital, even getting up the USB cable to the sound card end then sent back in digital form to the computer. I've seen that written more than once.
I have always had to "hum remove" USB turntable recordings (over the course of three different turntables), but this is still easier done than removing the random clickiness that is possible when using the built-in sound device.
Gale
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waxcylinder
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by waxcylinder » Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:45 am
Gale Andrews wrote:I have always had to "hum remove" USB turntable recordings (over the course of three different turntables), but this is still easier done than removing the random clickiness that is possible when using the built-in sound device.
And that's why some of us prefer to use a good quality TT/arm with a separate external pre-amp and USB soundcard - no significant hum and no random clickiness
Peter.
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