RMAF 2016

AnalogPlanet has been covering SweetVinyl's development of its SugarCube SC-2 vinyl recording platform, an easy to use vinyl to high resolution digital recorder that, among other things, pulls album art off the internet and automatically separates album tracks.

It's about ready to launch, but based upon consumer feedback the company's first product will be the SugarCube SC-1, a simpler box that digitizes the signal at 192/24 bit resolution and then uses a "non-destructive" real time program that removes pops and clicks without, the company claims, damaging the music.

The feature is also found in the SC-2, but for those who just want the pop and click removal feature this stand-alone box does that for $1500. In addition to real-time, non-destructive click & pop Removal the SC-1 features user controllable click & pop removal "strength", a pushbutton audiophile-grade "bypass" that lets you hear non-digitized versus digitized signal (for when you don't need pop and click removal), iOS and Android mobile app control and 192/24 bit hi-res digital processing.

The record used for the demo was purposely badly messed up and through the box sounded pristine. The bypass test showed (under show conditions, etc.) almost imperceptible differences between the analog pass-through and the digitized version.

When a review sample arrives, it will get a thorough sonic evaluation but based on what was presented at RMAF 2016 this will be an extremely useful product for many of us. The price is $1500.