mattdp
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I'm currently living on a desktop with crappy internal sound. However, I will be moving to a laptop in a few months (moving to college).
While I no longer have to put up with the crappy output (switched to an external DAC fed by 44.1/24 or 48/24), I'm still using the internal input to rip records (via Pioneer PL-518/Audio Technica AT-440MLa). The original record will have "space," everything will sound "separate" and there's a very natural sense of "timing." When I play back the digital recording, it's a little colored, there's no natural "space" and all the instruments sound like their on top of each other.
Long story short... I want to an external interface that has a some relatively low jitter converters and can run at 96/24 or even 192/24. I also want to be able to get 192/24 out of the computer. I'd like to pull said interface apart, upgrade the caps and opamps.
While I no longer have to put up with the crappy output (switched to an external DAC fed by 44.1/24 or 48/24), I'm still using the internal input to rip records (via Pioneer PL-518/Audio Technica AT-440MLa). The original record will have "space," everything will sound "separate" and there's a very natural sense of "timing." When I play back the digital recording, it's a little colored, there's no natural "space" and all the instruments sound like their on top of each other.
Long story short... I want to an external interface that has a some relatively low jitter converters and can run at 96/24 or even 192/24. I also want to be able to get 192/24 out of the computer. I'd like to pull said interface apart, upgrade the caps and opamps.
What are people having success with? Is there anything in the $100 price range that would fit the bill? I'd get something used, do mods or whatever it would take. Ideally, I'd get an apogee but I don't have that kind of money.