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Sorry, did not mention budget. I would like to stay around or below the 1.500 € frontier. Thanks for advice Eric

thanks kenny much appreciated eric

After more than 10 years of Pro-Ject 1 Xpression, taking the plunge for a VPI Classic turntable with JMW-10.5i arm. Actually this upgrade relates to the vinyl rip project that ultimately will make available my vinyl collection on the NAS and streamer. Would greatly appreciate advice on which cartridge and stylus to fit on the JMW-10.5i unipivot tone arm. I listen primarily to classical, opera, jazz, chanson and less to rock & pop. Many thanks in advance, Eric

You can find my vinyl rip process searching for author eschreye. That is what I can do, up to you to decide if it meets your standards. Do not hesitate to contact me if this is of any interest for you. Cheers Eric Sent from my iPad using Computer Audiophile

Indeed, my ADL Stratos supports USB 2.0 with DSD (2.8M, 5.6M and 11.2M), with the ability to sample up to 96, 176.4, 192 and I believe that my network player Cambridge Audio 851N also supports DSD (at 64x rate). No OP did not consider / tried out DSD neither for original capture nor for streaming because of lack of any knowledge on DSD. Unfortunately, cannot contribute on DSD.

Cannot disagree but cannot say much on this as i'm not tagging fluent. You can read from screenshot in previous reply that i have put in the album field the information [VinylRX] which indicates media source (+ RX processed). Still did not use a dedicated field for this information.

'Sides' information is tagged in the track title; see attached kid3 screen

Short answer, for my classical LPs - which is almost everything - yes. For these I basically limit myself to tag each file (or side) with the information that it available on the centre of each disc side - see attached picture to show the practical result for Rinaldo an opera provided in a box of 3 LPs. For vinyl where the track / song is more difficult to ignore - rock, jazz, pop, etc. - I use the Audacity feature to number & label and separate in one file per track. Eric Sent from my iPad using Computer Audiophile

Thanks for the tip, I might try it out Eric

That is unfortunately not the case for much of mine

Precisely because of occasional use and the cost of quality turntable I did not go that way. Indeed vinyl is cool. Still the hassle to choose & extract from the stacks plus the time consuming preliminaries to put the sound in motion, do put me off.

Unfortunately not yet my situation, still a few years to push. Hence, time is an issue Eric

Fully subscribed and very sound advice, implemented as well in my arrangement Eric

That is a whopping amount of sound! My NAS is currently at one tenth: 4 TB

My conclusions I have processed about 50 albums and the listening experience is by far above my expectations, with the exception of an abused 1958 mono recording of Berlioz Requiem conducted by Scherchen for which the declick algorithms did not work well (in that case I had to skip the processing). Overall, I’m very satisfied with the results and I truly and fully enjoy the digitised vinyl sound. Indeed, I can again appreciate headphone listening without being obsessed by noise, pops and crackle. I guess that the iZotope team has done an excellent job for putting within the reach of the layman results that not so long ago could only be achieved through manual processing by skilled sound engineers. Without iZotope RX 5 processing, the pops, clicks, crackle and noise remain ‘as-is’ in the digitised versions and that is difficult to accept for my ears. Probably there are other tools that do a similar - or better? - job but I did not survey or test and I do not know. Now I just have to process the remaining 400 records… Please do comment and provide improvement suggestions on the above described approach. It has been a bit of a journey to settle on this process and I did not want to explain the why and whereabouts of the trade-offs, compromises, cost / benefit analysis, selection criteria for tools, etc. - but I’m happy to attempt answering questions, if there is an interest to know more. Bear with me, I’m principally interested in the listening experience and I’m neither a sound engineer nor a hifi buff (though I cherish my gear).