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Best Sftw For Recrding Analog Via M-a 2496 Card?

I have bought an M-Audio Audiphile 2496 card for the purpose of recording my vinyl collection to hard disk at the full 24/96 resolution this card offers

Two recording software products I have experimented with: Peak 3.1 and AudioX appear to only allow a maximum 48/16 resolution for recording.

The only "effect" I need is to "de-pop and tick" the sound, and I need to manage LP's down to track level segements for playlists. Thus I am reluctant to shell out several $100's for packages with many features I will never use.

I want to keep the audio at 24/96 uncompressed and play them into my DAC in my stereo system (which can handle this resolution).

I am looking for a good value solution that will allow high quality tick and pop removal with minimal sound degredation, but which will still allow me to record (and play) at 24/96.

Recommendations please??

Many thanks

Oliver Reid

Error Bits And Aiff Question??

A CD audio file has about 800 error correcton bits for each 3200 bits of actual data. These are for correcting errors due to poor pressing of the CD, scratches, misreads, etc.

When the mac copies an audio file from a CD using to the hard disk the finder it converts it to an AIFF file.

Does it

use the error bits to clean up the data, or
just store everything, or
ignore the error correction data completely. ???

Thanks

Oliver Reid