tegwin
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| posted on 1/12/07 at 01:41 PM |
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USB turntable...thoughts
My old man has asked for some form of USB turntable so he can convert his little black frisbees into Cds via his PC....
There is one on "I want one of those" and one or two random ones on the web that are advertised as having a built in pre-amp and a USB
port for connection to the PC....
Has anyone had any experience with a "usb turntable" and care to comment on the quality of the sound and build?
Idealy I would suggest he buys a decent turntable and a sepperate USB soundcard type device, but that gets expensive and complicated...
Any thoughts?
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nathanharris1987
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| posted on 1/12/07 at 01:56 PM |
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i think you can just get a converter box summat like this
click
my mates got somthing similar and just has software on his comp to record and play about with levels.
I know it gets complicated with all the different wires but on the turn table its a phono output, straight into the box, no power cables and USB
straigt into the comp.
[Edited on 1/12/07 by nathanharris1987]
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Fatgadget
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| posted on 1/12/07 at 02:20 PM |
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SACRILEGE!
Music from records should never be contaminated by these new fangled digital gizmos!
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rallyingden
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| posted on 1/12/07 at 03:00 PM |
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Cant comment on the quality but CPC in Preston are selling USB turntables at reasonable prices..
http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp;jsessionid=5CC3LOMJ5MKUJQFIAFAZK0Q?N=411&Ntk=gensearch_003&Ntt=usb+turntable&Ntx=&_reques
tid=207458
Cheers
RD 
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blakep82
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| posted on 1/12/07 at 03:18 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Fatgadget
SACRILEGE!
Music from records should never be contaminated by these new fangled digital gizmos!
damn straight! I DJ, and i on;y use vinyl. no CDs for me!
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 1/12/07 at 04:21 PM |
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Good analogue will ALWAYs sound better than digital. 
IMHO of course!
[Edited on 1/12/07 by Confused but excited.]
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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02GF74
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| posted on 1/12/07 at 05:53 PM |
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maplins do one - it is usually on special offer - around £ 90.
It looks plasticy and flimsy but it willl do the job. But quality wise, who can say? You shouldn't expect it to reproduce sound like a £ 3 K
Linn LP12 turntable.
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BearingKits
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| posted on 1/12/07 at 05:55 PM |
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I have one from Maplin
£80, very good and simple to use, came with a noise reducing program.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 1/12/07 at 07:18 PM |
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Just show him the "I Tunes" shop or connect the existing turntable to the sound card input and use Audactiy to record the sound and
convert to MP3 or CD
http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity
[Edited on 1/12/07 by britishtrident]
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geoff shep
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| posted on 1/12/07 at 09:07 PM |
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I looked at doing this even before usb turntables but then had a bit of a search and found mp3 versions of all the old tracks I wanted for my dad -
including old 78s - so I used those instead.
[Edited on 1/12/07 by geoff shep]
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