Audiophiles and Comp geeks

[Squeak 17]

I've got a pre-amp switch box that allows me to plug my turntable directly into it and then from the box into my laptop, (via 2 RCA plugs into a 3.5mm Headphone socket). the sound comming through "Realtek" is pretty ordinary, does anyone know of some shareware or freeware that I can use to tidy up the sound quality?
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[PhreeZone 20]

You are probally dealing with a low end audio card on the laptop to start with. How high end are you looking to go?

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[br0k3n 0]

Adobe Audition should do the job.... although its not free, unless your the type of person who would p2p it ..........

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[timmeh 0]

yup your problem is definitely the audio card in the laptop, the inputs are not really ideal for anything other than microphones for voice chatting since they are low impedance inputs and not really signal conditioned on cards like the realtek laptops cards. if you really are into this idea, then you will need to buy an external sounds card like the creative soundblaster extigy or one of the external Audigy's, such as the ZS 2. These will take up a USB connection but are well worth it (and the price) for the crystal clear input you will get.

If you want to avoid the external sound card route you could always try some software signal conditioning using some sought of DSP software. Buzzmachines comes to mind as the best Open Source option http://www.buzzmachines.com/ Keep in mind this is a fairly advanced piece of software and will require either a decent degree of audio knowledge(which by the looks you don't have ) or you will have to spend some hours learning about filter designs and how to operate the program, however there are a lot of tutorials and some really good stuff about pop/click noise removal and numerous other useful filters for the purpose you have.

Alternatively there are a number of basic audio editors which may or may not be able to filter out at least some of the noise. You could try Audactiy, CoolEdit Pro(shareware - limited in what you can do in one session), plus the numerous professional software suites that can go for up to and beyond $10,000.

Hope that's of some help

[shall555 0]

Does that preamp do RIAA equalization ? LPs have goofy EQ due to the nature of the vinyl medium. If you just have a generic preamp there with line-in jacks you may be listening to some really screechy stuff.

Look around on the web for preamps with RIAA turntable equalization if you don't already have it.

Cheers,

shall

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[nathaniel 0]

Depending on the chipset, some of the Realtek stuff actually has nice hardware equalizer features that, if you get the right drivers for it, you can actually do fairly well for yourself. Probably not in a laptop tho.
Wouldn't hurt to look at both realtek's website if they have a reference driver implementation for your chipset with any software bundle, and also to check with your laptop manufacturer in case they offer a different driver / software bundle.
In my desktop system I've found for both video and audio the chipset reference drivers & bundled software are nicer than the vendor's.

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