Turntable recommendations for vinyl to digital music files

[LtMandella]

 The drivers however are a resource hog on Windows 10.  If I open a browser while ripping to DSD, I can get glitches (I7-12 core with 32 gig ram).
The DAC does make excellent DSD rips and the headphone amp sounds fine also.  Just wish the proprietary KORG windows drivers were less of a hog.
If I had to do it again, I would buy and external ADC like the musicians use for recording...

[Indy33]

The drivers however are a resource hog on Windows 10.  If I open a browser while ripping to DSD, I can get glitches (I7-12 core with 32 gig ram).

Respectively I've had a different experience.

I'm not having a problem with it eating up ram, the most I saw just now while recording DSD1128 was 146 MB.

I can't say for sure I've had Firefox open in the past 3 years while recording, but I've not noticed any skips.

Also on Windows 10 and 32MB ram and I7-8 core. It's running  my surveillance  software "Blue Iris" 24/7. After a reboot I have 202 processes running.

How much ram is yours using and number of processes?
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[LtMandella]

I had 32gig ram in the machine so I doubt the glitches were due to a ram issue.  I think processing power or some windows sound vs. KORG driver issue, or maybe even USB bandwidth issue.
Does seem like most- or all - of these issues could be avoided when proprietary driver is not needed.

For example, this is a brand new ADC, with digital phono EQ built in, and review was awesome:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/minidsp-adept-adc-phono-preamp-review.65333/

[Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft)]

I have a KORG and it doesn't glitch, so I don't know what's going on there.

[LtMandella]

Oh I don't believe it is anything to do with vinylstudio.  I do run the I7 machine overclocked, that could be a contributing factor...

[bshonbeck]

I use a standard turntable plugged into a Parasound Zphono USB device.  It is very well made, has a front level control that works on the USB output.  It has both line and phono inputs, selectable RIAA equalization, selectable rumble filter, and selectable Mono output.  It is AC powered so it doesn't load your USB port.  No special drivers, just plug it in and it is recognized (future proof).  It only digitizes to 44.1k and 48k I believe.