Solutions for converting vinyl to 256 DSD?

@OP. The choice in DSD ADCs is pretty limited. The Tascam DA-3000 could fit the bill. But you would need to A/B it against something like one of the two channel RME ADI Pro interfaces. If you are doing the conversion yourself, you might be surprised at the quality of a 24/96 recording. In terms of recording - as opposed to reproduction - the quality of the converters is more important than the encoding system

@OP PS - Update on my earlier post. The RME ADI-2-Pro FSm specifically, will record both PCM and DSD, so you can compare both encoding schemes.

+1 audio_guy_uofw

@OP - you will also, of course, need software to go with your ADC, and outside of Pyramix and VinylStudio, the choices are seriously limited.

Prism Sound produce great interfaces, but they are PCM.

As I said in my earlier posts, high res PCM has a lot going for it in the choice of interfaces and recording software.

Vinyl studio seem to be just about the only software outside of the Pyramix system (and Tascam's system) that will record DSD.

I use Apollo's in my recording studio. The converters are very good quality, but the broad consensus is that there is better to be had.

@cleeds - +1 for the Alesis Masterlink. Even though it's old, its converters were top quality at the time as still very good today. I have three of them up in the studio - though I should probably just keep two - with one as a backup. As you know, but for others information, they are built like tanks. The one drawback of them is the fact that the OS is propretary and that higher capacity hdds can't be formatted. But they can be picked up for next to nothing and are one of the all time audio bargains.