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In Reply to: Converting Vinyl to MP3 files posted by Hifi Dreamer on April 13, 2007 at 13:10:04:
I believe you would want this as cheaply as possible. Some of the solutions given cost a lot of money for what will be a limited amount of use. To do this cheaply the major outlay will be on software.Assuming you have a turntable, cartridge & amp Either use tape out or (if your amp doesn't have a phono stage)a dedicated phono stage (these can be picked up dirt cheap ($50ish) or for a little more quality ($100). Next you need a phono to mini jack adapter again dirt cheap ($10 or less) but for extra quality, look at the monster version ($50 I think). To connect up, phono peads from TT into phono stage, output from either phono stage or tape out (if using integrated amp/preamp) into adapter and adapter into audio mini jack on your computer. Lastly visit "Spin it again" (see link below) purchase software and download and install. Start recording to your hearts content. Depending on what you have had to buy outlay will be about $35 for software plus $10 for adapter and the cost of the phono stage if you needed to buy it.
You won't get the last "nth" of quality but you will get a decent recording which will be quite listenable to in the car/walkman/iPod or whatever.
Enjoy.
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- Re: Converting Vinyl to MP3 files - qualityman 06:19:30 04/14/07 (0)