bigshot
Headphoneus Supremus
You don't have any choice with digitizing 78s. There is no standard EQ.
You don't have any choice with digitizing 78s. There is no standard EQ.
Believe it or not, there are FFRR 78s.
I don't understand the point of vinyl rips. By digitizing the music, you take away whatever is "special" about vinyl. It doesn't make any sense to me. Vinyl sounds different, and sometimes better, but the only way to appreciate that is to actually play the vinyl.
The problem with going straight to digital and doing RIAA there is the device that the cartridge connects to. Unless its one designed for the purpose, and I know of at least one, the cartridge load won't be right, so the cartridge response won't be right, so the digital RIAA won't either. I keep hearing of people feeding the cartridge into a line input or mic input, adjusting the gain and applying RIAA...yikes. That gets you close...like "close" as applied to atomic weapons. 24 bits isn't required to the RIAA right because of the spectral distribution of music.
My personal preference is a good phono pre with RIAA in it, done right, the your ADC with bit-rate flavor of the week.