Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post

Btw, on a totally unrelated matter, since I've got your attention.... When you do needle-drops with your SP10, using your Io (and matching SUT), how do you overcome the issue of overloading the USB device/sound-card with excessive gain (presuming that this is the case)?
Fair enough re Dave C & Arthur K. I'm not aware of any of that.

With regard to recording; I don't use a Soundcard/USB device. I just use a cheap Tascam CD Recorder and burn the tracks to a blank disc which I then take to my computer, import & upload. If the recording needs the start or finish editing I do that in Wavepad but I don't use any normalising or level adjustment. Recording level is set at the CD Recorder. Actually I set the recorder to highest sensitivity & use the gain control on my phono stage to set to the desired level.

I'm sure there must be much better ADC's about now. I probably should try one. However, it isn't something I do often enough to make it a priority.