03-14-2019, 12:51 AM
I agree the best cost-performance options are 3a or 3b as both use your existing preamp.
My two cents:
3a will record directly to your computer where you can do editing and post-processing in Audacity, etc and convert to FLAC or your format of choice. When you have finished digitising your records, you can resell the A-D converter or re-purpose it, possibly as a DAC for a computer or even an RPi (if it is USB class compliant). However, you have the potential hassle of having to locate the computer and converter close to your hi-fi system while recording. If it's a laptop, then you can leave the A-D converter connected to your preamp and just connect via USB to the computer when you need to record.
3b will give you a nice ADC/DAC HAT for your RPi (I have used and tested the Hifiberry DAC+ Pro which is pretty good). You will need to run recording software on the RPi, probably record to local storage (allow about 66 MB for each minute of 24 bit 192 kHz stereo WAV) and then transfer to computer for editing and post-processing (the RPi might be a bit slow for sophisticated de-clicking or de-noising algorithms). It will be a small package that will be easy to locate near your preamp, too.
If you go with a Pi-based recording setup, do some research on what people are using that works successfully, talk to HifiBerry about what they suggest. This fellow seems to be doing ok:
https://medium.com/@PTcampbell/recording...51ae351b98
My two cents:
3a will record directly to your computer where you can do editing and post-processing in Audacity, etc and convert to FLAC or your format of choice. When you have finished digitising your records, you can resell the A-D converter or re-purpose it, possibly as a DAC for a computer or even an RPi (if it is USB class compliant). However, you have the potential hassle of having to locate the computer and converter close to your hi-fi system while recording. If it's a laptop, then you can leave the A-D converter connected to your preamp and just connect via USB to the computer when you need to record.
3b will give you a nice ADC/DAC HAT for your RPi (I have used and tested the Hifiberry DAC+ Pro which is pretty good). You will need to run recording software on the RPi, probably record to local storage (allow about 66 MB for each minute of 24 bit 192 kHz stereo WAV) and then transfer to computer for editing and post-processing (the RPi might be a bit slow for sophisticated de-clicking or de-noising algorithms). It will be a small package that will be easy to locate near your preamp, too.
If you go with a Pi-based recording setup, do some research on what people are using that works successfully, talk to HifiBerry about what they suggest. This fellow seems to be doing ok:
https://medium.com/@PTcampbell/recording...51ae351b98
