I've got a head-scratcher in the continuing quest to get my vinyl on
to CDs and hope that someone has a suggestion for a fix

As I understand it, audio CDs use 44.1kHz 16-bit files. If my recording
s/w is set to this though there's an unpleasant ringing on high frequencies,
eg female vocals. At 96kHz PCM 16-bit sampling the sound is good,
so it's possible to create hi-fi .wav files, although the writer s/w rejects
them as CD- incompatible. Hmmm. The file can be converted to
44.1kHz, but the ringing comes back. However, it can now be written
as a .cda track

I've had a look at CD Recorders, eg Philips, Marantz, that use 96kHz
24-bit DSPs. Somewhere in the h/w that sampling rate is knocked
back to 44.1kHz whilst retaining the fidelity of the original. But starting
price for good ones is $2000

It "may" be the sound card, but as the source and 96kHz sampling
sound OK and its settings are at "Best", I'm sceptical. I've tried 3
different programs - Polderbits, Goldwave and Windows Sound
Recorder - with identical results

Any thoughts ? TIA

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