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Entry posted by atari2600land · April 24, 2010

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So, I went to the record store today. There was a note on the door saying "It's 2:40 be back in 45 minutes." Being 3:30 and deciding that he wasn't going to show up again, I started to leave, and just as we pulled out, the guy came back. So, I went inside, and found another long song for my records collection: Rush's "2112." It just ended playing on my record player. It didn't sound very good. It's either the record or the player, I don't know which. I think next month I really NEED to get a new record player. I've seen the ones with USB ports so you can upload your vinyl to your computer. Has anyone done that before? If so, I have two questions: #1 - how does the computer file sound, and #2 - Is there a model where that's an option and something you don't neccessarily HAVE to do in order to use the record player? Most of all my vinyl I have on CD anyway, so there's really no point in doing that, it's just sometimes I like to put on a record and listen to it that way. I'm still having trouble finding a few that I need, and I figured they'd be easy to find because they're big names in music, but I just can't seem to: Genesis's "Foxtrot", Miles Davis's "Bitches Brew", Rush's "Caress of Steel," etc. I'll keep looking, though...

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Posted April 28, 2010

I purchased an Audio Technica USB turntable a couple of years ago and was terribly disappointed in it. Not to say that the equipment itself was bad, as it was a fine turntable that produced good music, but the software was not very user-friendly and had many bugs in it. It cut the last 5-8 seconds off of EVERY song that I tried to burn to the computer, so I would have to run about 30 seconds long in recording on each song, then go back and edit them. I downloaded other programs to try to do this better (like Cakewalk) and they weren't much better. In the end I finally sold the USB turntable to a friend who didn't own one because it also had standard outputs that he hooked up to his home stereo and NOT to his computer - and for $100 it's a quality turntable for him.

As for me, I use my ipod now to listen to music about 95% of the time, but when I want to actually "hear" my old records, I just go up and put a few on the old Technics turntable and just take it all in...