Re: (TV) usb / turntable / tech follow-up question(s)

[robin dunn <rdunnrn@yahoo.com>]

rex and phil,

thanks, you're right.  i think i got hypnotized by all the USB turntables out
there, somehow. but the spell has worn off.

a couple more questions:

is running cable from the receiver's RCA jacks (red and white, i think?)
preferable to just running a cable from the receiver's headphone jack?  when
i've converted cassettes on a boombox, i used the headphone jack -- and of
course it sits there very accessibly on the front of the receiver...

also -- our receiver doesn't have a built-in pre-amp, so we have some sort of
external pre-amp between the turntable and receiver.  i'm assuming this won't
make any difference in what i'm doing?

guys, thanks, i appreciate your input.  i can't always find people on this
list who know what i don't.

r

--- On Sun, 4/24/11, Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (TV) usb / turntable / tech follow-up question(s)
To: tv@obbard.com
Date: Sunday, April 24, 2011, 8:59 AM

I agree with Rex that a USB turntable is not worth it, except for some limited
convenience value. Your old Technics is probably fine; I used my c. 1990
Technics (nothing special) to rip plenty of vinyl to CD (including most of
VANITY FAIR, although I did subsequent ham-handed noise reduction).


I ran RCA cables from the designated tape deck "out" jacks on my Onkyo
receiver
into a Y adapter to connect to the stereo input jack on my PC's soundcard and
used CDWave to record it. This setup gave me the advantage of my receiver's
preamp for the turntable, and generated a pretty warm sound (in my opinion)
when
recording. I used gold RCA cables from Radio Shack thinking it would help
produce the best sound, but I think this was overkill. Likewise, after ripping
a
few records I replaced my stylus and needle, thinking my old one might be
worn-out, but it produced no noticeable improvement in sound. In other words:
I
think a c. 1990 Technics turntable is just fine. And I really doubt a new USB
turntable is doing anything special, although it may have a built-in preamp
(removing the need for the receiver).


Have fun! Happy to provide help/tips etc. as you go.

--Phil





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From: robin dunn <rdunnrn@yahoo.com>
To: tv@obbard.com; television-group@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, April 23, 2011 10:41:37 PM
Subject: (TV) usb / turntable / tech follow-up question(s)

as we delve deeper into the usb turntable issue (and hence seem to become
more
confused), i'm wondering:

does it make more sense to set up our analog system to do the transfers
(which, i think, leo recently did?)?  but whereas leo seemed to have some
nice
equipment, i'm not so sure about our.  we have a technics turntable that's
probably 10-15 years old, and a sony receiver that's about 10 years old.  how
hard (or impossible?) would it be to set these up for vinyl-to-digital
conversion?

r
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