Preferred format for digital recordings of vinyl records?

Hello,

     I am planning to make digital recordings of my phono albums so I can enjoy them when away from my home system (7000 & 2500).

   For those who have made digital recordings of their records, what format did you use for recording?   From my readings, it appears that FLAC (LOSSLESS) is the preference of Adiophiles, and MP3 (LOSSY) is fine if you are only going to listen via i-phone/car.

   Some on line discussions advocate storing in a LOSSLESS format, and making MP3s for your portable devices.

    Looking for FORMAT discussion, not ready to discuss hardware setup.  :-)

Thanks,

Seahawk 

I recorded mine as wav files, CD quality, and still have them archived in this format.Some of them I even burned to CD in wav format to have hard copies of (I didn't have too many albums to save).  I have a lot of storage space so I didn't feel the need to store them in any compressed or lossy format. I ripped the wavs into iTunes in AAC format for my iPod.

I would definitely recommend recording in a lossless format. The exact format does not matter so much because you can convert from one to another. Recording LPs is time consuming so you don't want to ever do it again. I had a free app that came with my mac laptop that recorded in AIFF format which I converted into Apple Lossless, or high quality mp3 for portable devices. Then, a bs5 came into the picture so I converted many into FLAC. If I were starting now, I'd probably go with FLAC. Stan

Jeff:

I recorded mine as wav files

same here - that's the very format directly on the CDs.

In times of Terabyte-HDDs no need to save only lossy files. I grabbed all my CDs in WAV and made 320kbit MP3's of them for use on the road.

Will do the same with some of my vinyls because if you get them on CD they are most likely either re-recorded or remastered which ends up in songs sounding somehow different than I remember them

Will do the audio-recording in 44kHz 16 bit Stereo (playing on Beogram connected to Beomaster and using tape out to connect to the soundcard), saving as WAV-Files. Use a high-quality soundcard - those on laptops are mostly not really good (and DON'T have a line-in; NEVER use the microphone input which tends to be monaural)

  hx

I digitized some of the rare bits of my collection (really only 3-4 records out of over a thousand) a couple of years ago; working regularly with recording equipment, I have a Zoom R16 recorder/interface and Cubase 5 full edition installed on the laptop for live and studio work. For recording off LP's any free DAW or recording program will suffice, though I generally recommend the computer interfaces where light editions of Protools or Cubase is included as they are top notch programs.

Did a light noise sweep and exported the files as 24-bit WAV