NAD's PP-3 digital phono preamp turns vinyl pits to digital bits

Vinyl holdouts have one less excuse for not making the leap to digital thanks to NAD's PP-3 Digital Phono Preamplifier. Turntables with encoding capabilities are nothing new, but if those decks have been beneath your standards then you've been out of luck. The PP-3, however, lets you supply your own deck -- the audiophile-friendly MC/MM phono preamp is RIAA-equalized and passed through a rumble filter before being output as a soft-clipped digital signal (on a handy USB port) courtesy an onboard A/D converter. The PP-3 also has a line-level input that might come in handy for when you decide to tackle your reel-to-reel tape archives. Available now for $199 -- don't you want to hear this MP3 stuff that all the kids are raving about?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2009 8:49PM]

Doesnt say the sample rate at which it encodes WAV files at. Only interested in the unit if I can encode at 24-bit,192KHz Stereo. Once in WAV you can compress with FLAC lossless as it to supports 24-bit,192KHz.

Preserve your vinyl digitally the right way :)

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 27th 2009 7:42AM]

I don't get these products... Just get a high quality, audiophile grade phono pre-amp, which is available from many manufacturers, then install a high quality professional sound card/mixer device and software, which also are available from countless manufacturers, and do the process yourself on your PC or Mac... You got more choices of devices that suit your needs, and you get to choose from a variety of file formats, sampling rates, signal processing, noise filters, track editing, etc, etc... This seems to be a device for amatures...

[oppizzippo Posted Mar 27th 2009 9:18AM]

totally agree, but a nice all in one to suggest to friends with no tech/sound knowledge.

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[MickBurke Posted Mar 27th 2009 11:24AM]

A turntable's not a 'deck'