[slinkelist] New Guy

[Gregg Sheehan]

Greetings,
 You guy's are missing an important part of the original question from Ken. 
To play a turntable into anything correctly at LINE level requires a 
"phono" type preamp with the appropriate IRAA equalizer. This is commonly 
found on any piece of low-budget crappy stereo gear- "preamp/ integrated 
amp stereo thing" that has a phono input. Just take a LINE out or REC out 
of that unit ( with PHONO selected as input )and plug it into your sound 
card LINE IN.  The cable would be stereo RCA to 3.5mm stereo (easily found 
at "Le Shack" ). MIC IN on any sound card probably has enough gain ( 30 to 
40 dB ) but lacks the  equalizer-----gottttt's no bottom 
end!!!!............  Got'sta have yo bottom end!
You're dealing with technology from the pre-CD era and may not be familiar 
with the limitations of cutting vinyl records or interface issues or maybe 
I'm just getting old.
 On a different bent, one CDJ / Slinkee thing we discovered, relative to 
lockups etc, has to do with file allocation tables. It's very happy to have 
the executable file in one FAT and cd files/ lists/ etc. in another. Works 
great and what the hell, hard drives are cheap and / or sectoring is 
relatively easy.
Gregg
Westpoint Technologies,
The Frozen Wastelands of Kanada
-----Original Message-----
From:	Sinan Karasu [SMTP:allahsiz@home.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, May 02, 2000 6:19 PM
To:	Pesola, Kenneth D COL DDESB; slinkelist@nirvis.com
Subject:	Re: [slinkelist] New Guy

For Analog input an Ensoniq 1370 based card is usually recommended. However
after Creative bought them out, they changed it to Ensonig 1371 based 
cards,
which I understand ( but don't understand why) is somewhat inferior.
It usually goes under AudioPCI  128 or some such. And usually around $50.
Said to have the best S/N ratio.
 For digital , you can't beat www.rme-audio.com . I got the hammerfall,
but it is an overkill.

 Get receiver/amplifier with SPDIF and a sound card that is digital only
and you will have the best of all worlds ( unless of course you can't live
without
the environmental thunder/lightning sounds sb-live makes everytime you
login.)

 Usually it is best to have an outboard A/D and D/A and route everything 
thru
SPDIF or some such. You really don't want your analog signals finding
their way into that horrible  noisy environment known as the PC case.
It can be done however, and I am to old and deaf to care.

YMMV.

Sinan


"Pesola, Kenneth D COL DDESB" wrote:

> Sure could use some advice.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Just purchased both a SlinkE and a new computer.
>
> What's the best soundcard and associated record/playback to get for
> top-quality recording from a turntable and playing back into an existing
> stereo system (and listening to Dolby AC-3 encoded DVDs)?  Also, is there 
a
> best-of-breed software package for burning CD's?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>         Ken
>         kenneth.pesola@hqda.army.mil
>
>
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