Ok Thanks. That is what I was wondering. I thought maybe the newer
stuff was as good as a 40 year old turntable.
Sounds like turntable, receiver/amp, audacity is the thing.
Pain in the butt to have to separate tracks and add titles and such.
You would get better conversion with a better turntable, but not the same
level of convenience. A good turntable cartridge is either near or more
than the cost of the entire USB turntable...
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Tim C <bb...@crone.us> wrote:
They are just Chinese turntables running through normal USB sound card ICs,
as I understand it. Gain is optimized out of the box but the big benefit
is convenience.
Also the software automatically splits tracks; I don't know if Audacity can
do that, but I wouldn't buy an Ion for the software...
Best,
Tim
On Feb 25, 2012 10:09 PM, "Dieselhead" <126die...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe Macs have had decent to high end audio. I am not concerned
> about the sound "card" at this point. It seems to me that the software
and
> its sampling rate, compression and that sort of stuff are more of a
concern
> than the turntable or the sound on the computer. I figured on using
> audacity.
>
> I was just wondering if the usb turntables were markedly better or worse
> than the regular turntable fed through a fair to middling receiver/amp.
My
> turntable is 1972 vintage Pioneer PL-12D
>
>
> I bought an Ion for the wife a few years back and she converted a bunch
of
>> her vinyl collection. IIRC we bought some software ("Spin it Again"?)
in
>> preference to what Ion supplied. That worked ok The quality is ok on
>> most
>> of the files she got, but I'm sure one could do better with a good
>> turntable
>> hooked up through a decent preamp/receiver or such. I think the sound
>> card
>> in the 'puter is also a big factor. I bought an Audigy PCMCIA off eBay
to
>> plug into her ThinkPad for that purpose.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>
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