Record (vinyl) users?

[Indiana_Jones]

I have some classic LP's and some very obscure/very shit ones too!
How do I hook my turntable up to my computer so I can download to iTunes?

You'd have to get one of those headphone jack to the 2 little white and red cables.

then u stick that in the stereo output and the jack end into the input port for your audio on the PC.

take a look online, would be way easier then trying to read what I just wrote lol

-Indy

[Skyryder]

I have some classic LP's and some very obscure/very shit ones too!
How do I hook my turntable up to my computer so I can download to iTunes?

try this.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...tepByStep.aspx


Skyryder

[Indiana_Jones]

Also as for recording goes use, "Audacity"

it's a freeware recording program. It's pretty good.

-Indy

[Indiana_Jones]

for the oldies out there.

Found this in my folks box of LPs which I have taken 'ownership' of now lol

Who the fuck is Gordon Giltrap lol

says there's only 15,000 of this single was released.

-Indy

[Jez]

i love playing the old records for nostalgic value ... something mesmerising about watching the vinyl spin, and that crackling before the first track if i have it up loud enough ...

as for sound quality, i played in a rock band too long to notice the difference between CD and Vinyl, the only difference i notice is the crackling or lack of between tracks.

[Pedrostt500]

I sold off all my record collection, though most of them were well scratched from drunken parties, there was alot of stuff that I would never see again, The Gordons, Toy Love, Iggy and the Stooges, etc some coloured and picture albums.
I still have some singles, and I do go into the record shop in Petone every now and again to see what I can find, will one day build the colection back up.

[Indiana_Jones]

Just got some new JVC headphones to listen to my records with

Niiiiice

-Indy

[McJim]

I'm a musician so any reproduction of music is a little bit of sacrilidge in my book however Vinyl (when painstakingly made, handled, stored and played on the best quality turntables) has an important advantage to the aurally attuned. A CD range is from 20Hz to 22kHz. A Vinyl record will record much lower and much higher frequencies than this.

Human hearing is tuned to 15Hz to 22kHz however we can perceive the harmonics of higher and lower than this range which can affect the percieved purity and tone of an instrument or voice.

Compact disc and other forms of digital music are convenient and easy though.

[Indiana_Jones]

Compact disc and other forms of digital music are convenient and easy though.

Only thing going for them.

-Indy

[GrayWolf]

I love vinyl. My equipment isn't that fantastic, so the pleasant distortion vinyl offers (that's why it sounds better, it distorts and alters the pure original sound in a way that sounds nice to our ears) isn't that obvious, unless I'm listening through my Grados.

The thing I love about vinyl is that I'm into old music -- Miles Davis, Grant Green, Hank Mobley, Coltrane etc.; it's wonderful to hold the original disc and cover and read the liner notes as they were originally produced. Something very tangible and satisfying to hold that big sleeve and disc. My iPod doens't quite have the same feel.

Thought it was to do with alpha waves and that CD's are cut off from frequencies beyond 20Hz?

+

This is an arguement that will rage eternal. Just like the Tube Vs Transistor one.
I have read that on early CD's (Analogue mastertape recordings transposed to CD) that because of the frequency cut and lift (RIAA) that LP's were made with, the lift in the high frequencies is partly responsible for the sharpness heard in those recordings. I had Vinyl till 3 yrs ago (Thorens with a Garrat Bros' P77). A good quality CD player simply out performed it, A Linn or Rok with a Keutsu? Ya talking! But yeh I still use a Toob Amp, for that lovely warm sound

[pete376403]

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=7654
Sony turntable that plugs straight into USB port on PC

[Indiana_Jones]

just grabbed a new pressing of....



Give 'em enough rope.

Should be getting the US version of "The Clash' in a few weeks

-Indy

[jaffaonajappa]

Dont forget...most turntable putput to a Phono level, not a line in level....even though the same RCA type plus are used.

What that means is.....often a computers line input wont handle the very low level of output from a turntable....you need a middle (phono) amplifier in between the 2.

An exception are the new turntables, linked just above, with everthing built in. But the sound quality from these is often a bit lower.......?

Rega P2 with Super bias cart - Rotel Pre and Powers - B&W fs. A 4k stereo 2nd hand.....blitzes any CD based system under about 6k. Still some good value in a decent turntable system......and loads of classic albums found in garage sales ultra cheaply

www.audioenz.co.nz - good website. like this site, but for audiophiles. and people with manners ROFL.

[Indiana_Jones]

www.audioenz.co.nz - good website. like this site, but for audiophiles. and people with manners ROFL.

That's 99% of KB members fucked then lol

-Indy

[Geeen]

Dont forget...most turntable putput to a Phono level, not a line in level....even though the same RCA type plus are used.

What that means is.....often a computers line input wont handle the very low level of output from a turntable....you need a middle (phono) amplifier in between the 2.

An exception are the new turntables, linked just above, with everthing built in. But the sound quality from these is often a bit lower.......?

Rega P2 with Super bias cart - Rotel Pre and Powers - B&W fs. A 4k stereo 2nd hand.....blitzes any CD based system under about 6k. Still some good value in a decent turntable system......and loads of classic albums found in garage sales ultra cheaply

www.audioenz.co.nz - good website. like this site, but for audiophiles. and people with manners ROFL.

What Rotels ya got? I'm running 1070 pre and power with a project rpm 6.1 through some Jamos and a REL sub.