Solutions for converting vinyl to 256 DSD?


Wondering if anyone has gone the route of converting vinyl to 256 DSD and if so what A-D converter and software they used? I'd like to do this with my Direct to Disc, old RCA and Mercury recordings as a backup solution.

davide256

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@mikelavigne The albums I want to rip either aren't available via streaming or the digital version is poor compared to the original vinyl. At this point my local digital library is all PGGB up-sampled to DSD256  as I find PCM at any speed lacking vs DSD for clarity and dynamics.There is another device that will do A-D at DSD256,
the ADI-2 Pro FS R  but I have not found any user feedback

@snowdog57 thanks, there's a germ of an idea there. I'd prefer to do native DSD
conversion but I would consider doing PGGB DSD up-sampling if the source files were HiRes. The Art 
USB Phono Plus is limited to 48/16, I'll look around for options that do 192/24 A-D conversion with RIAA equalization

@philgo01 There's an application called Music Media Helper which I normally use
to extract and tag audio from blue ray audio discs, easy enough to use it to tag PCM files before PGGB up sampling (which retains the tags).  

Native DSD is recommending a program called Tag and Rename