![]() ![]() I managed to score what appeared to be the last LineSteamer+ new off Amazon. Concern set in… maybe I should I have kept the Pad 1… because it looked like the HRT LineStreamer+ wasn’t anywhere to be found. Among my handful of 4 DAC’s are two HRT MuicStreamers (an original and the ll+), which offer pretty good sound for the money, so I set my sights on their HRT LineStreamer+, it having been around for a few years and affordably price and found that they were scarce. I recently sold the MSB Pad 1 to a friend, wanting to offer up a great component for his burgeoning ripping effort. With all of these strategies crossing streams, I wondered if people are still interested in ripping? The growth of download cards being included with vinyl sales slowed my vinyl ripping for a couple of years as ease of use began taking over. Around that same time, vinyl purchases started coming with download cards, though most often in MP3 format. ![]() As storage came down in price, I began to rip in 24 bit/96kHz files – the maximum sampling rate of the MSB Pad 1 and listening to more digital rips and downloads increased.Īs affordable asynchronous USB DACs came into the market offering great jitter reduction and connection via the quieter USB buss about the same time that high resolution downloading began catching on. At the dawn of high resolution downloading, I bought an MSB Pad 1 analog to digital converter from MSB at a great price and, for a good while, just ripped files that the iPod could play (16 bit/48kHz), then preferring to listen to vinyl for any serious listening. Later on, I used a Revox A77 Half Track as my primary source for nearly two decades. Since the age of fourteen and a small Akai reel to reel. I’ve always had some means of a recording device in my life. ![]()
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