In another thread I'm convering vinyl/tape archival. I felt the A-D converter deserved a thread all of its own.
So lets start with the basics. An A-D converter is just a backwards DAC. What you use to interface with your DAC can be applied to the A-D converter. There are converters today that now use USB, Firewire, AES/EBU, MADI, S/DIF, SDIF-3 and others that are slipping my brain.
The easiest for most people would be either a USB or F/W A-D converter. "Usually" you can plug these into your computer and your software automatically recognizes it, loads the drivers are you're off an running.
There are several USB and F/W A-D choices that do a very commendable job. Look at some of these:
Benchmark ADC1-USB
Behringer U-Phono UFO202 this even has it's own phono pre!
Apogee Duet2
These are basic A-D converters with most doing up to 24/192. Some have RCA and XLR inputs for both Consumer -10 and Pro +4 connections.
I'll talk later about converters with more feature sets and what to look out for.
So lets start with the basics. An A-D converter is just a backwards DAC. What you use to interface with your DAC can be applied to the A-D converter. There are converters today that now use USB, Firewire, AES/EBU, MADI, S/DIF, SDIF-3 and others that are slipping my brain.
The easiest for most people would be either a USB or F/W A-D converter. "Usually" you can plug these into your computer and your software automatically recognizes it, loads the drivers are you're off an running.
There are several USB and F/W A-D choices that do a very commendable job. Look at some of these:
Benchmark ADC1-USB
Behringer U-Phono UFO202 this even has it's own phono pre!
Apogee Duet2
These are basic A-D converters with most doing up to 24/192. Some have RCA and XLR inputs for both Consumer -10 and Pro +4 connections.
I'll talk later about converters with more feature sets and what to look out for.
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