On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 1:11:47 PM UTC, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 17/01/17 12:41, DerbyBorn wrote:
at one time with turntables we used to study specifications looking at Wow
and Flutter, Rumble and other characterisitics.

You can now buy a turntable for about £50 to output to a MP3 file.

Are they rubbish

Vinyl surface noises sounds horrible when compressed at low bit rates
and cartridges in cheap decks will almost certainly be ceramic.

The MP3 result will be lifeless if there was any life in the original
studio performance.

low bit rate (128kb/s) is the default setting for Microsoft but it can sound like a kicking a dustbin on some music. 192 or 256 sounds a lot better if you have the memory space.