Does anybody out there record their own CDs from LPs?

[JCOConnell]

I do. I record and edit at 24/88 using Goldwave on the PC and downconvert to 16/44 for CD. Each track is a Lp side. I do not attempt to break down Lp sides down into individual songs.Thus a 4 sided double album will result in a CD with 4 tracks. Sound quality of the resultant CDs is excellent. While for serious listening I will usually prefer to listen to the original analog Lp, sometimes for the sake of avoiding all those annoying side flips, I will play the CD or digital file. I also save the 24/88 master on my pc, so I have a hi rez digital file to play if desired. These files come very close to matching the originals. Another advantage of having the CD made is now I can easily play it in my car or convert its tracks to mp3 and put it in my cars music drive. Cant do that with a Lp.

[Garth]

NO I find CDs to slippery to use as drink coasters so what else can you do with them.

Just Kidding

[Rob]

my in-laws hung CDs from the branches of their fruit trees to stave off pests - it worked!

[Alrainbow]

I have someone who I buy the lp I get a dsd 128!in tracks frona good Ad converter they keep the lp. It works for me.
But tidal has slowed that for me now.

[MylesBAstor]

You know there is something to digitizing albums and sound. Years ago at one of the audio shows, Gavin Fish of Light Harmonics Technology was showing off their new DAC with some high rez files. I think Gavin sensed what I was thinking about the sound by the look on my face and said, let me put something on that you know. Gavin then put on a digital copy of the Super Analogue album Super Percussion and it blew away the previous digital recordings.

[Alrainbow]

Myles this makes me wonder too. Is it better or is it pleasing to our minds for other reasons. For me pure dsd even new gets beat by tape transfers and I am a digital freak. No matter what I do it comes back to analog stuff.
The new game is dsd 512 your IFI plays this. The trick is a powerful server and upsample on the fly to dsd 512
both my dacs will be fitted to play back this chipless

[JCOConnell]

There is also the case where you have a stone mint very expensive LP you don't want to handle/play often. The solution is to make a hi rez digital copy and enjoy that safety copy instead of the original LP. I did that for my DSOTM UHQR for example.

[Johnny Vinyl]

I never have, no. I've copied digital files onto a CD and/or a USB stick, but not vinyl. Back in the days of cassette I used to do quite a few needledrops, although rarely complete albums.

[JCOConnell]

I never have, no. I've copied digital files onto a CD and/or a USB stick, but not vinyl. Back in the days of cassette I used to do quite a few needledrops, although rarely complete albums.

I used to record tons of complete albums to cassette for playback in the car.

[cpp]

Those were the days

[JCOConnell]

I always recorded my own cassettes for the car. In fact I don't think I have ever bought a single prerecorded cassette in my entire life. 8 tracks, LPs, CD, BD, DVD LD yes, cassette, NO.

[astrotoy]

I did a whole bunch of LP's and R2R tapes to 192/24 digital, but not to CD. An album takes about 3GB. Larry

[MylesBAstor]

Myles this makes me wonder too. Is it better or is it pleasing to our minds for other reasons. For me pure dsd even new gets beat by tape transfers and I am a digital freak. No matter what I do it comes back to analog stuff.
The new game is dsd 512 your IFI plays this. The trick is a powerful server and upsample on the fly to dsd 512
both my dacs will be fitted to play back this chipless

I'm not sure about the pleasing but maybe more a comment on the recording quality. It wasn't so much pleasing as sounding like the LP I know. That gets back to something that I said in another thread (in part the CAF Tidal room thread and Jonathan Horwich's recordings) where to my ears, digital derived from analog sources sound better than pure digital recordings. The question being if digital is able a good job with the analog tape why can't it do the same thing with a digital master? Is it differences between ADCs that we are complaining about and not necesarily the care taken in the transfer?

[Alrainbow]

I feel your on to something best for me is analog to digital dsd
not pure