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Old December 10th 09, 12:24 PM posted to uk.comp.homebuilt,uk.rec.audio
Jim Lesurf[_2_]
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In article , Arny
Krueger
wrote:


Because of the LP format's inherent technical failings, digitizing LPs
is not all that challenging of a task for even an one of those on-board
audio interfaces that comes with most motherboards.


In principle it is slightly complicated because of the possibility of
unpredictably high peaks. But in practice this doesn't seem a problem in my
experience and 16bit samples should be fine if you allow for enough
headroom when setting the gain.

Slainte,

Jim

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