I have two turntables - one in the Living Room and one in my Office - I am in the process of digitising my mainly 70s vinyl collection into FLAC. I have no idea when I will finish and still buy the odd vinyl. In the office I stick an album on, click record in VinylStudio and carry on working on the same PC (two monitors). It is a less than five minute job at the end to split the tracks and add metadata and album art. I use a Behringer USB mixer in a non mixing mode which allows very quick switching between source and playback. I wouldn't say that either of my turntables are particularly high end although the office one was very highly regarded in its day as being the best entry level belt drive turntable then around (Trio KD1033B). I have found that the biggest factor on the digitising process (apart from the condition of the vinyl) is the cartridge/stylus and I have upgraded (?) to modern Ortofon 2M Red on both turntables fairly recently. In -some - cases the results are such that you can only tell which FLAC is vinyl ripped and which is CD ripped by listening on headphones. In others its obvious it was a vinyl rip. When the vinyl condition is simply not good enough to digitise I will buy the CD. Like others I do wish there was a better way to handle the artwork as there is no substitute for a decent LP cover. In fact I have coffee table style books about them as I suspect a lot of us do.
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