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Old 25th March 2009
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*grin* Clearly I come out on the other side.
Actually, I was going to explore the VPI machines, but I took time off from my audiophilia (sounds nasty) to raise a family. I've just started back in the last 5 years and haven't got to the cleaning machines yet.

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Agreed. Have you played with oversampling at all? Or is "Red Book" format good enough when you do the A/D conversion?
I've tried oversampling with MP3s and although it sounds a little better it still just doesn't sound right. It just sounds less muddy. And if you have a vocalist with a good range the clipping seems even worse.

My portable audio player only plays mp3s and wma (eww). So now I'm looking at Grado or Sennheiser headphone to see if that will make things better.

@running_first:
If you want to upgrade to a audiophile card look at M-Audio, either the Audiophile 192 or 2496

I also second the Sumiko Blue Point as that was my first audiophile cartridge on my Linn Basik (which I miss and if anyone has one they want to get rid of let me know).

Someone also recommended looking at garage sales and such. You can fine some nice stuff there and on ebay if you look closely, I got a Music Hall MMF 2.2 that list for $450 for $30, because it was listed as an Audio Technica.

Maybe we should get a FreeBSD Audiophile forum
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