Busy today, de-algaed the deck and power-washed, worked-out, had a few appointments, then managed to put this together in a spare hour and a half much to the wife's chagrin:
JAMs LP 2 modified:
http://www.fileswap.com/dl/KWfBCwx/JAMs_LP2_modified.zip.html : Meant for iPod and CD-R. Amplification and light compression, dead space removad, but no clipping or click/pop removal...far from it, I could have compressed the hell out of this and it would have sounded great but trying to make it modern while respecting tradition. There's always the volume knob. Might try a more compressed version on request.
Working on one or more copies of 1987 for this week. Have a rip of the original but need to compare with the late 90s boot as this may also be unofficially official. Probably can't clean this up for digital as it's just too random. Will see what happens..
I am currently using an ARTcessoires v2 USB Powerplus Preamp which works at 16/bit44.100khz but would love to upgrade to a 24 bit/96,000 khz phono preamp for the forthcoming archive. Must be USB and phono compatible but fiberoptic output would be nice as well. Decent ones seem to go for $400 plus. M-Audio used to sell a good one for much less but has seemingly discontinued it. Creative sells a shitty one for $250. Any mid-cost solutions that will ship to the US...preferably with metal construction. Terratech has one but it seems Euro only
Suggestions encouraged...wan to up the gsme
Dan