It’s something I can use when appropriate, or bypass completely via my preamp.I have started to rip my vinyl to DSD128 via a Korg DS-DAC10-R. Not all records need the Sugarcube, but some do. So there’s just a few reasons why we do this. 100% of nothing.įiles are easier to share than records I’d rather let someone borrow a replaceable memory stick than a record. This ensures I have a copy, even if it’s not 100% the fidelity of the original. If I’ve spent a few dollars on a recent remastering or a rarity from decades ago, I can back it up by digitizing it, storing it on my server and putting a copy in my cloud account. Why should I enjoy some of my pressings from only one seat in the house? Digitizing vinyl means I can take favorite versions of recordings with me, or let anyone else in the house listen without having to touch my records. Nor do I appreciate the break in concentration. While I’m working, I don’t have time to pogo in and out of my chair to flip records. One cannot have turntables in every room, on every system. If this improves enjoyment of records I normally wouldn’t play often due to damage, what’s the harm in it? None that I can see. I still have some I’ve been seeking for over 30 years and have yet to find an acceptable copy. Most are clean titles but oftentimes I can’t find a clean copy of a record. I own a lot of vinyl that has never seen a digital release, and likely never will. The one scenario where ripping vinyl makes perfect sense is when you have an out-of-print album that you can’t find on a streaming service. (Those were the days.)įor convenience sake, a lossless streaming service seems to fit the bill when one wants to play an album away from the turntable. Or, dare I say it, sorting the seeds and stems. The concert of three pedals, shifting the gears by hand, perfectly and accurately, at the chosen RPM. Having a really nice turntable (do you prefer vintage wood and aluminum or modern glass and carbon fiber?), and the deliberate enjoyment of selecting a record from the shelf, removing it from the sleeve, placing it on the platter – and the visceral, assiduous act of precisely dropping the needle. The beauty of vinyl is not only about the sound, but also about the ritual, the process. What I don’t understand about such vinyl ripping interests…why not just make a subscription to a streaming service instead? They will probably offer any of your vinyl at a better sound quality than ripped with such dust removal algorithms. It just sounds like a clean record, which is the point! The Sugarcube is the real deal, it seems. The Sc file has no discernible distortion. I don’t notice anything once the music starts, but you might in a very quiet passage. Kind of as if the peak of the click waveform was chopped off, but there is still a little shoulder area left. It’s almost as if the VS has allowed for a small residue of the original clicks in place of the clicks on the repaired file. To my ears, the noise in the Sugarcube file is smoother and more natural. However, in the VS file I noticed the slightest distortion on top of the underlying noise that is not there with the Sugarcube repaired file in the spoken intro of the track. Both the VS and SC files are pretty well de-clicked. To my ears, the SC file is definitely superior. I’ve taken that clip and run it through the excellent program Vinyl Studio to de-click it and compared it to the Sugarcube de-clicked file. In the thread, an owner provided a clip of a rip with and without the de-clicking. There’s a pretty good thread all about it in SteveHoffman forums here: I wish it had been around a year ago, otherwise I’d have purchased it. Having read a bit about the Sugarcube, I must say it’s a pretty impressive unit.
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