Originally Posted by wayne

hi,

I've been postulating if its worth going to these sampling specs when transferring cassette masters and low gens in my collection. I've got a
3-head Nakamichi BX300 tape deck, I usually feed this into a Tascam DA30mkII analog input and then go to the HD via SPDIF @48kHz.

I've got a Audiophile 2496 card which can cope with the higher spec but I'm wondering if its overkill to archive tape sources in this way. Anybody considered doing this, or is it considered a waste of bits.

thanks

Wayne