Re: (TV) usb / turntable / tech follow-up question(s)

[Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

I agree with Rex that a USB turntable is not worth it, except for some limited 
convenience value. Your old Technics is probably fine; I used my c. 1990 
Technics (nothing special) to rip plenty of vinyl to CD (including most of 
VANITY FAIR, although I did subsequent ham-handed noise reduction). 


I ran RCA cables from the designated tape deck "out" jacks on my Onkyo receiver 
into a Y adapter to connect to the stereo input jack on my PC's soundcard and 
used CDWave to record it. This setup gave me the advantage of my receiver's 
preamp for the turntable, and generated a pretty warm sound (in my opinion) when 
recording. I used gold RCA cables from Radio Shack thinking it would help 
produce the best sound, but I think this was overkill. Likewise, after ripping a 
few records I replaced my stylus and needle, thinking my old one might be 
worn-out, but it produced no noticeable improvement in sound. In other words: I 
think a c. 1990 Technics turntable is just fine. And I really doubt a new USB 
turntable is doing anything special, although it may have a built-in preamp 
(removing the need for the receiver). 


Have fun! Happy to provide help/tips etc. as you go.

--Phil





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From: robin dunn <rdunnrn@yahoo.com>
To: tv@obbard.com; television-group@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, April 23, 2011 10:41:37 PM
Subject: (TV) usb / turntable / tech follow-up question(s)

as we delve deeper into the usb turntable issue (and hence seem to become more
confused), i'm wondering:

does it make more sense to set up our analog system to do the transfers
(which, i think, leo recently did?)?  but whereas leo seemed to have some nice
equipment, i'm not so sure about our.  we have a technics turntable that's
probably 10-15 years old, and a sony receiver that's about 10 years old.  how
hard (or impossible?) would it be to set these up for vinyl-to-digital
conversion?

r
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