24 Bit remastering

This should help :

http://www.tweakheadz.com/16_vs_24_bit_audio.htm

It's just the number of digital bits used to encode each sample of music. 16 bit (CD Quality) allows 65 thousand possible levels, wheras 24 bit allows a little under 17 million levels. 24bit therefore captures far more detail than 16bit. The story does not end there as the other important number is the sample rate. For CD this is 44.1 thousand times per second, for most 24bit recordings this is usually 96 thousand. If you imagine a graph showing a musical wave, then the bit depth gives the vertical resolution and the sample rate the horizontal resolution.

Thanks for your infomation, its just that I,m transfering Vinyl albums to my hardrive and with the creative sound card X FI I can transfere at 24bit Wav form and it sounds great.

they say that 24bit audio is 4 times as good, if you want to measure it (depends on the sample rate th). although the number of possible combinations of x (being sample rate) and y (being bit depth)when interpolating a sound wave increases exponentially.

What sample rates are you using?

Contraversial, but I would strongly consider either 88.2Khz or 44.1Khz.
I say this because 88.2Khz, can be exactly halved in terms of samples taken per second (time x axis) - less CPU intensive, introduces less noise etc. In case you wanted to downscale at any point, to have a great sounding file and a more durable file for general use (in 16bits).

I also suggest considering 44.1Khz or 48kHz, because the most audible leap in quality is between a bit depth of 16 to 24. Ofcourse 96kHz or 192kHz also sounds great - but is LESS obvious than making the giant leap to 24bit. On a PC you've also got to worry about hard drive space (less of an issue these days), but worth thinking about acheiving the right balance, between accesibility and great sound.

sounds like a cool project - good luck with it! I hope this doesn't mean that the LPs have to go in the attic

Thank you Simon great information.

My sample rates are as follows Wav Stereo Sample frequency 48.oookHz 24 bit.

The Lp's I,ve bought in boot sales all in great condition some are nearly mint I,ve always had A album collection and now I'm rebuilding it.

But I like to use my computer as A music interface I use Sony Sonic stage with a Coaxil connection to my HIFI so I have the best of both worlds but I shall be getting the new Unity to upgrade my ageing system but no albums in the attic for me