Recommendations for a Analog to Digital Converter

Vinyl Studio will let you separate and tag tracks in DSD files. Beyond that, you need to convert to PCM to do other post-processing. There is professional software that will allow you to make corrections to DSD files and only converts to PCM in the area of the correction, but I do not believe there is any consumer level product that can do that. Editting DSD files is one of the major drawbacks of the format. If you want to do anything beyond track breaks and tagging you need to use PCM. I would love to be able to clean up DSD files. I just don't think you can do it at the consumer level.

Grace Design V3, Benchmark ADC, Mytek, Apogee Mini-Me.

Occasionally I've seen a 'Legacy' Metric Halo ULN-2 for sale at a decent price. It's a very good DAC as well.

The thing about the Tascam DA-3000, from what I've read, is that the amount of storage you can fit on an SD card is limited, and comes up pretty close to one side of a record (25 minutes when you record in DSD). I guess that is not an issue as long as you can get a record side on the chip. I'm glad to hear that Vinyl Studio allows breaking up tracks in DSD - that is what I was asking about.

Peter, no, I suspect that what you've read was a misinterpretation of the specs on page 31 of the manual. The person writing those statements probably didn't notice that the recording time specs are **per gigaByte**, and the DA-3000 can utilize SDHC cards up to 32 gB, or Compact Flash cards up to 64 gB. (It can also use USB flash drives up to 64 gB, but only for playback).

Regards,
-- Al