Oops, and inmy last message, I forgot to explain why USB Turntables aren't
all that great, and that is because they're not built for fidelity, rather,
they're built for in-expense, E.G. poor preamps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick G" <n...@hkcradio.com>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: High fidelty and turntables today
Youa re going to get conflicting responses about this. Some will advocate
a USB Turntable for the PC, but I personally think that defeats the
purpose of why one would want such a thing. Yes, fidelity is higher with
Turntables, open reels, etc.
A PC would need a phono input to plug a turntable in. Phonos, as you
should know, are preamplified.
You are going to need to start building a high fidelity system for such
a purpose. I'm not as up on the high fi world as I used to be even a few
short years ago (I'm only 20), being more computer minded now, but I do
think you're gonna have to do that now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <cchalt...@austin.rr.com>
To: "PC audio discussion list." <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 3:09 PM
Subject: High fidelty and turntables today
I'm not exactly sure how to ask this, but I'm hoping to get some pointers
to more information and some advice. My son is asking for a turntable for
his birthday. I assumed it was to access music he can only find on vinyl,
but he says it's for higher sound quality than he can get off of CD's or
MP3's.
I still have the component based stereo system I built when I was
younger, which currently includes a receiver, DVD player and DVR. I
retired my turntable and VCR a while ago. I would not be surprised if
such a system, with high quality components, could produce better sound
than you'd get off of a PC or portable media player.
I guess I'm wondering a couple of things. Is this true that you can get
better sound quality out of a high fidelity system than you can from a PC
or portable media player? If so, how would you go about building such a
system today? Would you do what I did years ago and start assembling your
components? Could I get him a nice turntable that he could hook up to his
PC for now and then include in a component based stereo system down the
road?
Thanks for any advice or pointers people could provide me. I haven't
started looking around on the web, but I'm assuming I'd be overwhelmed
with the amount of information out there on such a topic.
--
Christopher
cchalt...@austin.rr.com
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