Hi, i tested 96/24 vinyl rips in flac against 44/16 flac on my fiio x3 portable player and i came to conclusion, that 96/24 rips sounds quite better. More natural sound of some instruments and less sparky/synthetic heights. But on the other side, every vinyl rip i listened was full of more or less crackling noises. On home stereo it might not be such a problem but on headphones its quite a disturbing in some parts of song. Whats your opinion about vinyl rips? Do you mind crackling when listening on headphones? Are there 96/24 rips other than vinyl?
I like GOOD vinyl rips, but prefer listening to the actual vinyl.
By crackling if you are referring to hiss from vinyl then it doesn't bother me, if you're speaking about distortion that shouldn't be there then yes.
Yes other rips exist.
I have a couple vinyl rips that sound the same or better than CD rips, but most sound worse IMO. Mostly due to the crackling. You can get 24/96 rips of SACDs. They are relatively rare, but they are out there. Legitimate 24/96 downloads from places like HDtracks aren't vinyl rips, but I get the sense that you are talking about rips from the "dark side" LOL.
After recording, I used the software to clean up the surface noise and all the pop and click. I also used subsonic filter and a LPF of 16 KHz (I can't hear over 16 KHz) to clean the sound up a little more. A little off topic story, a lot of the people that listen to my recording can't tell the difference except for one guy and he didn't really have any training..
What are you using for an A/D? What about recording software and what settings are you using?
What software are you using to clean the noise and pops and clicks? If you are using a bad software then that can be causing a lot of issues.
You shouldn't need to use any HPF or LPF, that will change the sound. I know you said you can't hear above 16kHz, my question is this have you actually tested this with something that can accurately play these freqs?
My guess is that there was no preamp between the turntable and the capture device to adjust the line level. If you capture at a really low volume, then normalize everything up, you won't be getting the full quality with redbook. However you can bring up 24/96 without a problem because it has a lower noise floor.
Recording at a low level and normalize up is what I do. I'm lazy. Doing this basically help me prevent the recording clip. As long as the noise floor is low, it shouldn't matter too much, right? There are so much other defects, noise floor should not be the dominating factor.
There is a big issue depending on how you do it. It can add compression. You should run a hotter recording level. If the track is getting compressed at some point, the noise floor will be affected drastically.