New Rega Phono ADC

Wonder if this is the start of a trend from the better TT manufacturers.
USB ADC specifically for ripping your vinyl, or adding an RIAA stage to amplifiers with only digital inputs.

http://www.rega.co.uk/

 

Do you know if it supports high-res recording? Nothing else is good enough for vinyl don't you know

 

16/44 is high-res

 

So you assume that a low-end ADC chip running at 88.2kHz outperforms a top-end chip (+matching analogue input stage) running at 44.1kHz?


It is perfectly possible to make a totally uninspiring-sounding digital recording front-end at 2x or 4x rate, and sadly, many manufacturers do so.

 

Hi Werner,

I think the comment was tongue in cheek.

On your general point, there will be an audience participation thread on this very subject at the weekend

 

Well I have found something interesting recently. I used to think that bit-depth was far more important than sample rate, but on my Behringer DEQ2496 ADC I've found distortion is actually lower running at 96KHz than other sample rates. This uses an AKM AK5393 ADC chip for reference.

Clearly this doesn't mean high sample rates are intrinsically better but on this bit of kit it seems to be.

Secondly, I've found that my Lynx digital I/O card records fewer jitter related artefacts locking on to the ADCs internal clock (nothing special, these days considered quite high jitter), than feeding the ADC a word-clock input from the Lynx. This remains the case even using a wide-band PLL setting.

 

Shame the Rega unit appears to be MM only.

 

So it's aimed at DJs?

 

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