Hello Guys
Being analog 'n all that with a few thousand vinyl records and many tt's and other stuff to use for really good sound, I still had a problem in that I could not play any of my favourite vinyl music in my cars as there I only have CD players. Despite being mostly clueless when it comes to computers, I nevertheless recently installed software called MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab/10 on my computer with which I'm happy with.
I've made many CD's with sound quality often better than professionally made CD's bought in stores.
I get this good quality sound using one of my Garrards 301's, a homebrewed mc cartridge, amplified by my Nagatron HA-9000 dc powered phono pre and equalised by a Kenwood Basic C1 control amp and using good quality cabling and interconnects.
Being a fiddler by nature (who isn't in this hobby?), I read up a bit on the bogstandard soundcard which came pre-installed on my computer when I bought it, and thought that maybe here was another tweak which I could do.
I did not want to make too many radical soundcard changes and yesterday, bought something called Edirol UA-1EX USB Audio Interface, which is now successfully installed and ready to use with the MAGIX recording software.
Has anyone any experience with this outboard device? Do you think I will improve on the quality of recording to CD or have I wasted the bucks?
I am sure the sky is the limit when it comes to soundcards and there will be many better solutions and products but do you think the Edirol would be a good intermediate step upwards from the Realtek AC97 soundcard I've been using until now?
Cheers
bulgin