[quote=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.


I have done hundreds of restorations and regardless of what mr brownstone says mp3 will not sound as good as an original recording from vinyl.
The process of recording is once the analog source enters the pc it is recorded as wav files. Once you convert to mp3 you will lose quality, there is no way around it. I don't no what audiofiles he is speaking of and what "test"
he is speaking of but anyone that has experience in audio restoration would not archive their valuable tracks as mp3s, the time involved in restoring a vinyl record is valuable to me and I would never convert from wav to an mp3 format. If mp3s are so good why are people always changing and coming up with ny mp3 formats claiming theirs is better than the rest. Just as debro says cd is digital sampling and you can hear the difference.