Besides the good suggestions here, you will want to look at http://www.delback.co.uk/lp-cdr.htm which gives a pretty complete overview of your options.
The one thing that surprises me a little in the discussion is the concern about recording levels. This is a part of the ritual for those of us who have been recording since tape days, especially cassette, but it was because the dynamic range of the cassettes was at best comparable to that of the records, so you had to be careful to use all of it. I think it might be vestigial with the much bigger range of CD recording. I find that if I just use the same level with plenty of headroom for all discs, the noise from the records still swamps anything added in the transfer. For what it's worth, I use a Sony component CD recorder/player. It has no hard drive and not much memory, so it records directly onto CDs in real time. This may have been a cost-effective compromise a very few years ago, but it's kind of silly now. It's very sensitive to vibration and even, it seems, to the brand of media; and when it fails, it does so in a frustrating way: it usually doesn't give any indication of failure until you finish the track, which for me is a side of an LP. -- tom permutt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21836 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
