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Re: Favorite CD and song at the moment...
#25624 11/18/03 05:54 AM
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If you think of it as a hobby, and not the be all and end all, then vinyl is a fun way to go. These are the last few years of picking up treasures at garage sales, in attics, and from friends getting rid of their past lives. My advice is to do it all on the cheap. Grab a mint direct drive turntable (Denon,Teknics,Pioneer...)at the next yard sale you attend ($10) and then pick up a new bottom of the line (Ortofon, Grado, Audio Technica...) cartridge. A carbon fibre brush. and some distilled water for cleaning old albums, and you are in business. There are lots of websites that will show you how to align the cartridge and it is really easy. The counterweights on most turntables are fairly accurate, and the Japanese consumer tables keep their settings very well. I won't ever claim that the sound is more accurate than a good digital recording, but there is still something magical about sound coming out of a vinyl groove. There are many recordings that have never made it to disk, or have been mastered so poorly that the LP sounds better. The irony is that with records being all but extinct, today's technology allows them to sound better than they ever did.
A few simple rules. 1) use the high side of the downforce range for the cartridge. 2) Don't pay much for used records. You can't tell how they will sound by looking at surface scratches. The damage hides deep in the grooves. 3) Don't believe anything the high end turntable salespeople throw at you. If you think the people who sell cables are out to lunch, you won't believe what the vinyl faction sells as gospel.

Re: Favorite CD and song at the moment...
#25625 11/20/03 07:56 PM
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I too have thought about buying a cheap record player. I have a ton of comedy on vinyl that I know has never been released on CD. I'd love to burn them to CD. What would be the easiest way to do that? (I only have a CD burner on my computer)

Re: Favorite CD and song at the moment...
#25626 11/20/03 08:21 PM
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I'm sure you could figure out the hardware part. You'll need a record player, a phono pre-amp, some RCA cables, and a sound card with audio in.

Lucky for you, there is software designed specifically for recording LPs. Here's the one I'd start with:
LP Recorder

There's also software that you can use to clean up the recordigs and reduce pops, crackles, and other noise. Here's one:
Ray Gun

Re: Favorite CD and song at the moment...
#25627 11/20/03 09:43 PM
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firesign theater?

Re: Favorite CD and song at the moment...
#25628 11/21/03 01:26 AM
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Mostly some old Cosby stuff. I'm sure some of his stuff has found it's way to CD, but I have some rarer live recordings that I've never seen before as well.

It may be cheaper for me to find someone else who has the gear and would do it for me. What a fair price to pay someone to burn some LP's?

Re: Favorite CD and song at the moment...
#25629 11/21/03 01:29 AM
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Yeah, my dad has a bunch of those old Cosby albums. I was thrilled when my wife bought me the 3 pack on CD that's out now, but that's certainly not all of it...


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