Digitizing Vinyl With a Devialet

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I am stealing this link from a post Mike made on a different thread. I did not want to hijack that thread. Thanks to Mike for posting it.

Mike said:
Not DSD (yet), but you may find this interesting:

https://fr.devialet.com/assets/pdf/bi-dir-tutorial.pdf


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I have never digitized vinyl and wonder how that method would work. My questions might be more generic than Devialet specific. I would think any digitizing program would need a way to edit it. Otherwise there might be serious pops when the needle dropped or dead space at the run-out if the "programming engineer" (me) was not fast enough. :S
 
You need to direct your question to Larry/Astrotoy! He has the most experience in the matter of anyone I know.
 
For a more generic answer, I use a Lynx Hilo, MacBook Pro and Pure Vinyl, which, for me, provided a very good solution for the money. Here's a link to the PV website, where you can find video tutorials on converting vinyl to digital in the "Download" section. You can also find some on youtube (from RMAF):

CHANNEL D - Pure Vinyl
 
They have the Audacity at the end of the chain. Seems a PC and Audacity remains the clear choice. If only there was that perfect AD DSD128/256 box that I could buy... The Aye QA9 Pro seems to fit that bill...?
 
Mike related to me that the Devialet was not ideal for digitizing, however they do digitize the phono input- somehow they are not related. Mike or anyone??
 
here is the post

o0OBillO0o said:
Not sure how the phono stage can be good, its all converted to digital according to a few sources, and then the rest of the analog (to digital) be not good enough, for you, Mike. However, I dont own it and never touched one. I default to those who have.

Devailet is going to be huge this year in audio.
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Mike said:
Because they really spent time and energy optimizing the phono input. Also, have you looked at the config tool?
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Digitizing, Mike.

o0OBillO0o said:
Not sure how the phono stage can be good, its all converted to digital according to a few sources, and then the rest of the analog (to digital) be not good enough, for you, Mike. However, I dont own it and never touched one. I default to those who have.

Devailet is going to be huge this year in audio.
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Mike said:
Because they really spent time and energy optimizing the phono input. Also, have you looked at the config tool?
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Mike said:
I tried multiple sources - Oppo, MA-1 DAC, Squeezebox even. The ADA conversion was less than desirable, the exception being the excellent phonostage.

Jeff is wrong IMO. Stay in the digital domain with the Devialet.


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Myles B. Astor said:
You need to direct your question to Larry/Astrotoy! He has the most experience in the matter of anyone I know.
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Thanks, Myles. I started my digitizing project about 5 years ago. I am approaching the 90% completion level, having done nearly 10,000 records and tapes. I began before DSD was popular. However, since I believe that some good post ripping processing is needed for almost all records (removing clicks and pops, and for old vinyl, removing some surface noise crackle), the conventional methods require PCM files for the processing (although I believe, IIRC, there are now some very expensive processors that can post process DSD).

As you can see by my signature, I went on the pro equipment path (Pyramix, Izotope RX (now 3Advanced), Mykerinos Card, Pacific Microsonics Model Two) which isn't for everyone. All my ripping is done at 192/24, again the upper limit dictated by the equipment. I also had Bottlehead built a custom phono-pre including variable EQ for my old records.

So I haven't had any experience with Audacity, Devialet, etc. Pure Vinyl and Amarra were just coming out and were part of the shootout for software and hardware to make the choices I did.

Larry
 
Hi,

I have a Korg MR 2000 DSD recorder, and it's great! Unfortunately, it's not being made anymore... I've been told this one by Tascam is almost as good:

Product: DA-3000 | TASCAM

It's a very simple and straightforward process. It just records directly to an SD card (or to the internal HD in my Korg). Then you take the SD card and plug in your computer, for any subsequent post-processing.

I've done 2xDSD (5.6) rips that are virtually indistinguishable from the original vinyl!


alexandre
 
asiufy said:
Hi,

I have a Korg MR 2000 DSD recorder, and it's great! Unfortunately, it's not being made anymore... I've been told this one by Tascam is almost as good:

Product: DA-3000 | TASCAM

It's a very simple and straightforward process. It just records directly to an SD card (or to the internal HD in my Korg). Then you take the SD card and plug in your computer, for any subsequent post-processing.

I've done 2xDSD (5.6) rips that are virtually indistinguishable from the original vinyl!


alexandre
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Alexandre,

I have heard good things about the Korg, at a very reasonable price. Do you know any software that removes clicks and pops and crackles from DSD files without converting back to PCM? That has been a stumbling block for ripping vinyl to DSD.

Thanks, Larry
 
astrotoy said:
Alexandre,

I have heard good things about the Korg, at a very reasonable price. Do you know any software that removes clicks and pops and crackles from DSD files without converting back to PCM? That has been a stumbling block for ripping vinyl to DSD.

Thanks, Larry
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Larry,

Sorry, don't know any software that does that. All the post-processing that I do is just splitting the big files into components (individual songs).
I'm pretty happy with my transfers, few pops and clicks notwithstanding. The way I see it, if I were to put the actual LP on the turntable for a listen, it'll have the same pops and clicks, so why should I expect the digital transcription to be different? :D
I understand that your project is a much more serious endeavour than mine :) I just want to have the option of picking the music off my server instead of finding the LP and putting it on the turntable...


alexandre
 
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