"Eric" wrote in message


What I'm after is being able to go from LP to .wav file
without loosing quality. I've done some copying using the
mobo onboard sound, and the quality is ok, but not all it
could be even after running it through the Goldwave editor.

Goldwave isn't really all that bad. Another freeware editor with merit is
Audacity. It supports more formats and mulitrack, both features that are
kinda moot in your situation. Nevertheless, the price is right so it may be
worth investigating.

And there are incompatibility problems between the mobo
sound driver and other stuff on board. So I've been looking
toward shutting off the onboard sound and using a sound card
instead. The newegg reviews say that the Revolution 7.1 is
very good for music. Will it be able to record from LPs
without losing quality? Or should I go to a higher end card?

I think that the 7.1 is very good for music, and could be an audible upgrade
over the audio interface on your system board. What system board do you
have, BTW?

The MOBO has USB2.0, but I had not heard about using USB
instead of a PCI card. Could anyone point me to a url where
I can find out more about that?

http://www.usb-audio.com/faq.html ???

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/audio/usbaud.mspx



And can you recommend a general purpose book with which I
can bone up on PC-based sound -- say the equivalent of what
'Mother of all Windows' was for Win98?

Nothing comes to mind.