Not so, although you may think it is because you are playing it on the same
equipment that it was recorded on. Take that same recording and bring it to
a professional studio and you will quickly notice the difference. Having
said that there are recording artists that record their songs at home in
order to save money on professional recordings, and the quality of their
recording is acceptable to be put on a CD. The standards for home recording
equipment is improving dramatically, and definitely meets the standards of
low end professional equipment. Most radio stations that play CD's on air
use home equipment, as it is much cheaper, and when it breaks down they
throw it away and simply get a new machine. Professional broadcast quality
CD players sell for over two-thousand dollars for a single unit, and a home
unit can be purchased for under a hundred bucks. You would be hard pressed
to detect the difference in audio playback quality between a home and
professional unit on a broadcast station. By the time that signal leaves the
studio and ends up on your receiver it goes through a number of changes.
Audio processing and equalization are just a few of these changes that take
place in the chain of events between the studio, transmitter, and your
receiver. Broadcast engineers do their best to make sure that the quality of
their audio is as close as possible to the quality of the audio that leaves
the studio. The best analogy that I can think of is a water treatment plant
that cleans up your drinking water. To some people the taste of the water is
acceptable, and to others the taste of chlorine in the water is
unacceptable. The audio debate will definitely take on another form once we
move into HD digital broadcast audio.
---- Original Message -----
From: "Sunshine" <sunsh...@abe.midco.net>
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Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: Seeking information on USB turntables
bruce i would have to respectifully disagree with you
with a good home recording set up you can get the same pro recordings as the
pro's do, and so for those of you who like to do the restoration of vinal,
tapes, 78's and lps and reels and the like go for it
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 1:42 AM
Subject: Re: Seeking information on USB turntables
Are professionally-produced CD's of the albums you're interested in not
available? They may well have much better sound than anything you could
produce with home-grown equipment.
Bruce
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On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Gary Wood wrote:
Well maybe I'LL have to settle for getting a cassette deck that plugs into
my
computer and putting the cassette copy I have on the harddrive, and then
transfer to CD, but a problem with this is that then, it's a second
generation copy, and I hear those aren't as good as a first one!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray" <rays-h...@raynetbrm.plus.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 4:11 PM
Subject: RE: Seeking information on USB turntables
Must say Dave, simply from my impressions of the ION USB turntable I saw,
the build quality didn't seem impressive so I'm inclined to think these
turntables are very basic performers technically.
I'd much sooner go for a Hi Fi turntable with magnetic cartridge and a
good
pre-amp. These cost!
Either that or consider using a company doing vinyl transfer as a paid-for
service.
After all is said though, depends entirely on how critical you are about
sound quality. I've yet to start transfering my treasured vinyls but I
know
it is going to be time-consuming.
Hope these thoughts are of some help.
Ray.
Dave McElroy WA6BEF wrote:
In a word, awful. <lol>
-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of André van Deventer
Subject: RE: Seeking information on USB turntables
I'm just wondering what quality of turntable these will be.
-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Ray
Subject: Re: Seeking information on USB turntables
Well, there were such things as Music Centres - as we called them here in
Brittain - which combined turntables with cassette decs. Still we're
talking 'old' here, and I guess you want a USB hardware device that does
the
two.
I've not seen an USB combi anywhere for transfering old anoalogue stuff.
I
know here a brand called ION has seemingly cornered the market in three
seperate units that do vinyl records, audio cassettes, and VHS videos.
So
I if you've not held on to the various old stuff that could have done this
via hooking through a converter, then this is the only way to go.
Ray.
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