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Recording Vinyl to iMac questions..

I want to digitise some of my LP's. I have had a brief look around of what to
do and software/hardware i will need.

VPI TT (got)

iMac running Audacity.

24bit Apogee or Lynx A-D converter at 96 khz

CEDAR CT15 de-click or Izotope RXA software.

I think that lot will do the trick and the way I see setting it up and running it is this?

Connect TT to the A-D converter then that too the PC?

Run the de-click program first. On doing that though do I need to give myself headroom for dynamic peaks or will the software take care of it and i run at -1 dbfs?
Do I need to do a second pass on the Audacity software after the de-click software?
Please let me know if i'm going down the right path!
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Thanks for starting this thread barnacebill. I am new to vinyl and I too was looking at recording to macbook pro. My desire is to listen to my LP only recordings in the car and to see if my LP recordings sound better than some of my CD's

I will look into Duet and Furutech.

Questions:

1) Wouldn't declicking software degrade sound?

2) Are there any other ways of going about this that do not cost a fortune?
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