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In the Forum: Off Air Audio
In the Thread: “FM live” file exchange service.
Post Subject: Of all these things the most critical is the good tastePosted by Antonio J. on: 10/15/2006
 Romy the Cat wrote:
You would not need any “special” A/D converters, as I did impose any demeaned to “quality”. All you that you need to have a more or less reasonable tuner, a good antenna, strong reception and an ability to write it up at 24/44 or 24/88/ Also it is necessary to have a good taste to recognize which broadcast was worthy…

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to share the interesting and worth attention performances, though I think this is the part that most interests me and that can be more educative. Maybe my first selections aren't up to what you can expect and desire, but that can largely improve. What it's sure is that one doesn't know for advanced which broadcast is going to be good, so we'll need to record all them and just share the ones worth attention.

I don't have any A/D converter but the soundcard of my PC which is in another room, and only can record up to 16/44. It's a four years old Creative Audigy. So I'd need some ADC which can be used with a portable with firewire or USB connection. There are some M-Audio devices which are quite inexpensive. A technician friend told me about a device, the M-Audio Microtrak 2496, that can record any choice of bitrate/sampling freq. up to 24/96, and that records on memmory cards (up to 8Gb), so the files can be transferred into the computer easily and has the advantage of battery operation, so little noise and flaws from PS should be expected. He says it has decent quality for this purpose, though not up to pair to Lavry's or Apogee's stuff. You can take a look here: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MicroTrack2496-main.html

The tuner is a Sansui TU-919 which sounds very good to me in my system. Reception of the above metioned station is between 4 and 5 in its own scale, many days it's full scale. If I'm lucky I could get a TU-X1 in a few weeks.

Let me know your thoughts, if I can participate in this iniciative, I'll be happy to do it.

Regards,

A.

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