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rraud wrote on 1/27/2021, 10:37 AM

Typically, USB is better if the turntable or phono preamp has a USB port.

btw, @Mark-Jones1352, welcome to the Magix Sound Forge users forum

gary-Stoy wrote on 3/8/2021, 1:46 PM

What sampling rate/bit depth is sufficient/recommended with recording high quality sound from vinyl? I am noticing very large FLAC files as compared to ripping CDs similarly to FLAC. Currently use to 44K/24-bit.

emmrecs wrote on 3/8/2021, 1:53 PM

@gary-Stoy

CD "standard" audio files are 44.1kHz, 16 bit. When you create your files at 24 bit you are, in effect, making them 50% larger than they "need" to be for burning to a CD.

Speaking personally, since CD Audio uses uncompressed .wav files I would always rip them in that format. Similarly, if digitising vinyl I would always use .wav.

HTH

Jeff

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rraud wrote on 3/8/2021, 2:21 PM

As @emmrecs stated, record and save as 44.1kHz/16 bit stereo PCM files for CDs and subsequent end user encodes.....mp3, m4a, flac, ect.

gary-Stoy wrote on 3/8/2021, 7:21 PM

Is there a mechanism to easily convert 24-bit to 16-bit?

rraud wrote on 3/9/2021, 1:26 PM

"Process> Bit Depth" , in SF Pro there are two converter tools.. either will do the job.