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Old 15-10-2004   #10 (permalink)
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Re: DO I really need to BUY a soundcard?

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Originally Posted by alexliszt
Hmm....there are a lot of replies, which are nice. But they all seem kind of...er... give different advice.

I do care about sound quality, but I am sure if buying a sound card will make any noticable difference when recording from vinyl. BTW, all my LPs are classical, so the sound quality does make a difference.

Still not sure what to do....anyone ever been through what I'm doing?
Vinyl is analogue = real time recording amplitude which is combination of all frequencies.
CD is digitally sampled -> meaning limited resolution, and only discrete values.

So a cd signal is only a close approximation of a reconstructed waveform of the original recording. Whereas the vinyl is a much more accurate approximation of the original recording, well much closer than approximation.
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