Spring update! (Or Autumn, or Fall, YMMV)

[kfbkfb]

https://www.phaedrus-audio.com/PHLUX.htm

(just found w/Google - stereo phono cart FR >100kHz)

(possibly an advisory that declicking works better when a wideband phono cart is used)


Kirk Bayne

 

[chucky3042]

https://www.phaedrus-audio.com/PHLUX.htm

(just found w/Google - stereo phono cart FR >100kHz)

(possibly an advisory that declicking works better when a wideband phono cart is used)


Kirk Bayne

As Dave discussed with me in the digital world you really are limited to 22 KHz (good ol Nyquist), so if we did it we would use an external analogue HPF as an input. It amazing how fast you can rattle those diamonds.

 

[par4ken]

https://www.phaedrus-audio.com/PHLUX.htm

(just found w/Google - stereo phono cart FR >100kHz)

(possibly an advisory that declicking works better when a wideband phono cart is used)


Kirk Bayne

I believe that it does. I use both the Sony XLMC-3 and the Audio Technica AT-ART9XA for thier wide frequency response, required for
CD-4. Doing (stereo) needle drops at 192Khz/24-bit (32-bit float) and then applying declicking in software does an amazing job.

Using my tube based preamplifier with passive equalisation helps to allow the big pops through. The large clicks are often many times the level of the actual audio, they are very easy to see and to remove perfectly! The automated process does an excellent job as well. I like to manually remove/repair the big ones first and then run the automated process, to "scrub" the record clean.

I save my rips at 192/24 because hard drive space is cheap but they can be downsampled to CD quality with no noticeable quality loss.