Audiophile Soundcard for Ripping Vinyl

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I'm looking for an Audiophile soundcard for recording vinyl from my turntable. I set it up last night using the on-board Realtek AC97 audio. I was looking at either the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 or M-Audio Audiophile 192.

Also can you please advise what the best non-lossy file format is for archiving purposes and software to use. I used Audacity and saved as uncompressed WAV 48kHz sampling rate. Will sampling at 192kHz justify the extra cost of the Audiophile 192 soundcard?

Also is Audacity the best softare to use? From my understanding there is a special version of Pro Tools called M-Powered specificially for M-Audio devices. Is this worth using?

Many thanks

 

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

Hope you get lots of replies as also very interested. I did read a while back on one of these forums that the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 was not compatible with Vista ??

 

[Anonymous]

Don't flame me but I get pretty good results with the onboard card in my Dell and a program called Acoustica. Saving the files as .WAV's. Mind most of my vinyl has been well played over the years so perhaps that has something to do with it.

 

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Pauldosteo:

Hi there,

Hope you get lots of replies as also very interested. I did read a while back on one of these forums that the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 was not compatible with Vista ??

Hi,

It is compatible with Vista. There are even Vista 64bit drivers:

http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support&tab=driver