Re: [ARSCLIST] Lossy compression losing quality (was Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio and the Milllennials . . .)

[Goran Finnberg <mastering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steven C. Barr:

> 1) Either use a "record player" with a ceramic cartridge, 
> as I do (NOT recommended for LP's...!)...and redirect the 
> cartridge output into the "Line In" jack(s) of your 
> computer sound card..

Ceramic cartridges needs to be correctly loaded for proper frequency
response.

Something like 1 megohm is the proper load, anything less and the bass
response suffers greatly.

You will not see 1 megohm input impedance on any soundcard that I know
of.

So this is quite suboptimal indeed.

-- 
Best,

Goran Finnberg
The Mastering Room AB
Goteborg
Sweden

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