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Vinyl Archiving and the Ultimate Pressing: U2’s Boy (1980 UK PBTHAL LP 2496 FLAC VTW) The signal is sent to an converter, then
This is where the "2496" magic happens. The signal is sent to an converter, then into Adobe Audition on a dedicated Windows XP PC. Patrick resamples the audio to 96kHz using Izotope RX2, manually cleans any remaining clicks in the spectral editor, and saves it as a high-resolution FLAC file.
The Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) ensures the original uncompressed WAV data stream captured by the ADC is compressed mathematically without losing a single bit of information. The VTW Designation