[dba-Tech] Audio equivalent to AMC

Hi Mark and Arthur

So true. There is no free lunch here. Without a high quality pickup and ditto RIAA preamp, you get nowhere anything that will match your old classic records. The cost of either of these components surpasses that of a cheap vinyl-USB player.

I guess you (Arthur) already have a good record player and amplifier. If you insist on digitizing your records, spend the money on some clever software that will reduce cracks and noise - like SoundSoap:

http://www.soundness-llc.com/products/soundsoap4/

You can watch a video demo. The vinyl part starts at about 2:45. For vinyls I would be reluctant touching that Enhance slider ... it seems most useful for bad audio on video recordings.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Mark Breen
Sendt: 15. december 2014 10:18
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Audio equivalent to AMC

Hello Arthur,

do not be fooled.

those turntables are just a cheap and nasty desk with a usb.  All you need is a mini-jack to phono connecter and feed your deck into your pc.  That is all the usb guys are doing.

Depending on your head and the impediance,  you may be better off taking a line output from your amp.

All you get with those decks is the nasty deck and a piece of open source software.  My father - in - law purchased one a few years ago.  After realising the enormous task, he simply switched plans and instead decided to listen to his music.

Mark



On 14 December 2014 at 15:45, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, Susan! With a smart phone camera, you could scan the barcode and 
> that's that. Sadly, however, a couple of thousand of my LPs predate 
> the concept of barcodes, so you'd have to type the titles in LOL. Not 
> a lot I can do about that aspect.
>
> As regards my record collection, almost all of them have been played only
> once: way back when, I had a TEAC reel-to-reel tape machine, and I 
> would play each new record once, taping it, and from then on play the 
> tape rather than the LP. I even went so far as to buy inner sleeves 
> for them all. Over the years, I have sold some to various vendors of 
> used LPs, virtually all of whom are astounded at the reverent care I have taken with them.
> Invariably, on their initial visit, they carefully inspect the surface 
> of the records they're interested in acquiring, and marvel at their condition.
> On second and subsequent visits, they don't even bother. They simply 
> assume the records will be in perfect condition.
>
> I guess I'm one of the few that insists that the vendors come here, 
> rather than me taking the records there. But there are simply way too 
> many to even consider me lugging them to their shops.
>
> There are now turntables that can plug into a USB port so you can play 
> the record and capture its contents as an MP3 file. I think I need one 
> of those. Does anyone have such a beast? Any recommendations as to 
> brand and model?
>
> A.