Something Old - Something New

[PAULBACH]

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From this morning's WOOT - a USB Turntable. Is this an oxymoron?
(comment about record part of advert)

[DARRYL CAINEY]

With all the modern tecnogagets out there, is there an off- the- shelf device that can hook up to your turntable and your computer to copy music on to a CD?
I know you can purchase a turntable recorder from Radio Shack but I already have a great turntable.

Darryl

[criminaldesign]

It would be good way to put the LP's on a comp. I'm guessing the LP "sound" would go over too.

[AKBeemer]

I heard a piece on the radio not long ago about how records are making a comeback. Why?

[Peter_Krynicki]

I just replaced my old turntable. I need a turntable to sit on Sundays sometimes to listen to LPs. I have a lot. It was weird setting up the new one, even attaching the small weight on the wire as an anti-skating device. No USB. I have one on-line source for buying new vynal.

[Manfred]

With all the modern tecnogagets out there, is there an off- the- shelf device that can hook up to your turntable and your computer to copy music on to a CD?
I know you can purchase a turntable recorder from Radio Shack but I already have a great turntable.

Darryl

On my home PC I have a free Microsoft program that uses the PC's "line in" to capture live sound and record it onto the PC in a common digital format chosen by the user. I've hooked up my portable cassette player to capture songs on tape and put them on my portable MP3 player. A turntable would work the same - you need cables with RCA jacks for the in-put with a single micro-jack for the connection to your PC sound card.

When I get home I can let you know the cool MS program I mentioned - had a hard time finding it and don't recall its name.

[shire2000]

People are very enchanted withthe "sounds" you get from records as opposed to the super clean sound you get from CDs.

Last year the sale of records more than doubled in the USA.

[hlothery]

I, personally, don't miss them at all. I still have my B&O turntable, and it still works, but I never use it. I also don't miss the "click and pop" machine I had to use to filter out the extraneous sounds on soft classical passages, or the Dynamic Range Expander necessary to make it sound like a symphony again. But I still have, and use daily, my old 1978 McIntosh power amp (have a new preamp, though) .........and it still sounds wonderful (even with just two channels).

[Slablog]

I got one of those Sony USB turntables for X-Mas. It works great with the included Sony Sound Fourge software for taking the old vinyl to MP3 format. There ARE some small glitches, but minimal editing solves the problems for me. The software balances the volume and removes some of the bad scratches, etc.. So far the songs sound almost as clear as the CD rips. The turntable sells for about $100.

My future son-in-law in Los Angeles collects classic vinyl, and claims its the rage right now. So for $20 I bought one of those collector books to see if any of my records was worth anything. So far I have one old Beatles album that's worth about $200 but other than that most are in the $6 to $10 range.

[riderR1150GSAdv]

I still use this one with an MMC1 cartridge http://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=307.
I prefer the sound of an LP over a CD. On top of this I just have too many albums to convert to CD or harddrive, or replace with CD's. Many records aren't re-released anyway either.
The great advantage of a CD is it's portability but soon they will go the way of the Dodo too, as smaller storage media enables music-lovers to use SD cards and I-pods. Sales of CD's already have slipped quite a bit due to on-line downloads too.

[SIBUD]

People are very enchanted withthe "sounds" you get from records as opposed to the super clean sound you get from CDs.

Last year the sale of records more than doubled in the USA.

Doubled from what to what?

[108625]

I still have a complete, "outdated" stereo system including a, what used to be top-of-the-line, reel-to-reel tape deck, casette recorder and tangential tracking turntable. I do play all of them ever so often .:heart

Same here, there's something about the sound that just suits a good jazz LP or a radio show. I also picked up a nice old Grundig Majestic HiFi to restore, it's just like the one Dad once bought new when he came home from europe decades ago.

[Manfred]

The free tool I use to bring analog into digital is the Windows Media Encoder (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx). Some folks on the 'net recommend a newer MS tool (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5031c859-e8da-41bc-98e3-c13add5378b0&DisplayLang=en).

[BubbaZanetti]

On my home PC I have a free Microsoft program that uses the PC's "line in" to capture live sound and record it onto the PC in a common digital format chosen by the user. I've hooked up my portable cassette player to capture songs on tape and put them on my portable MP3 player. A turntable would work the same - you need cables with RCA jacks for the in-put with a single micro-jack for the connection to your PC sound card.

When I get home I can let you know the cool MS program I mentioned - had a hard time finding it and don't recall its name.

be careful, a line level turntable with a built in phono preamp will work this way, but most turntables are not built this way.

you will need to get a phono preamp before you can connect to your turntable to your pc.

a record out of a receiver with a phono input would work just fine for this as well.

i love vinyl in my relatively short life i've owned 20 or so different turntables and thousands of records, although that collection is mostly gone now.

[GlobalRider]

I still have a top-of-the-line and mint Sony PS-X70 (http://www.thevintageknob.org/SONY/sonyvault/PSX70/PSX70.html) turntable.

Its one of the nicest turntables I've ever seen. I'm glad I snapped it up back in 1979, I think it was.

[kgreer]

If you have a good turntable the iMic from Griffin Technology works good for connecting to your computer by USB.
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic

kg