Korg tascam etc. recorders any comments?


Anyone has experience with these(korg mr 1000, tascam dv-ra1000) recording from vinyl to digital?
Looking to capture as close to what vinyl is bringing to the room.
pedrillo

Showing 2 responses by nevillekapadia

Use the Korg MR2000S for transferring vinyl to 2xDSD and find it extremely close to the original source. It would really difficult to differentiate them in a blind listening session. Even without a blind A/B test, you have to make sure that you are listening to the original source and not the Korg playback.
The recordings are best in 2xDSD. As you go down the chain to single DSD and PCM, you will find that the information on the space between the musicians starts to vanish.
As you can add the songs into the play-list it is easy to find for playback onto the Korg.
It's great for recording those 45rpm audiophile recordings so that you can listen to the full album in one go.
Hopefully soon we will have DAC's capable of playing these 2xDSD files via usb, whioch will lift the playback quality. Not that the Korg does not hold merit.
I have also added a larger HDD in my Korg compared to the original 80Gb it comes with.
Highly recommended for vinyl transfer.
Hope that helps.
Neville
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That is the big question- who is going to come out with the software which will send pure DSD over USB? Korg's Audiogate, Foobar, Pyramax, Sonoma.....?

Both Mytek and PB Design have mentioned their ability to decode the signal, but neither one have said which software will execute it.

It's a waiting game...and I do hope it gives us some direction soon.

Neville