see the comments in the post below, been tough for me to tell since everything sounds fine when I play the records back initially.. Will be reconfiguring stuff and looking to re-rip any affected rips. In the meantime, if anyone wants to send me a list of all the rips which they know have digital clipping/etc, I’ll add them to the queue for re-ripping (it’s a pain for me to notice since TBH I don’t listen to my rips for this site much, I usually just listen to the original vinyl 🙂 )
Update:Just ordered an Ortofon arkiv needle which seems to be highly recommended for ripping, there’s still a bit of ground noise from the combined phono pre-amp / usb box I’m using but not as bad as the old setup.
hehe thanks for this bro – I’ll recheck but definitely: Capone, Dub Technicians – Analog Pressure, Redshift, Cyanide 45 – i’ll thoroughly listen to all the recent rips and give some times to check 🙂
cool thanks… also I reripped Capone tonight and just replaced the mp3, feel free to compare and see if it sounds better (might be a couple of “pops” in there but I think that’s the vinyl, hopefully none of the clipping).