nyazzip wrote:well i still don't have a functioning phono preamp so that is kind of why i wanted to stick with the USB output for now. but, tonight i played with the turntable using the analog/line out, and experimented with my own "RIAA" eq profiles using Cubase's step filter and eq functions.
a cautionary article i just found on high recording sample rates; haven't fully read it yet:
http://productionadvice.co.uk/high-samp ... und-worse/
Does that TT analog/line jack have a switch? The TT may have a phono pre built in with RIAA using the line position. If there is no switch, then the jack may be just line level out already and then it would also be RIAA eq'd. They built those TT's for people who no longer had receivers or amps with a standard phono in, just aux/line. So it is probably already RIAA filtered.
nyazzip wrote:just wondering if a cheap cartridge can cause or contribute to what sounds like, on loud passages, clipping distortion. the recording was done in the late '50s with audiophilia in mind; it is called "Provocative Percussion", so it is hard to imagine that signal clipping got by the engineers in the studio.
think its probably time to upgrade to a decent turntable; the one i use is a Neumark USB device from the early 2000s
Getting back to this... The distortion you are describing is typical on marginal quality pressings and also from the combination of poor tracking of the stylus in those loud passages and the groove quality. If the stylus pressure is too low you can have tracking issues. If the stylus quality is cheap you can have tracking issues. If the pressing is cheap you can have tracking issues... All sound like distortion.
Also, if the LP is early enough, there won't be any RIAA used in the original record cut. How old is the LP?
Headed for Tishomingo to sing in a can...