 Turntable
Talk
Got 33's? Got 45's? Got 78's? How about Transcription Discs? Now, got something
to play them on? No?
Today's turntables (yes, they still make them) can
plug directly into your receiver, and for audiophiles, the new, 180 gm vinyl
will give you sound
quality beyond belief.
If you have an older turntable or record player
(or find one of these little gems at a garage sale), you can still, in MOST instances,
make this work with your existing stereo equipment.
On this page, we’ll
try to tell you how to do this. If you have questions about hooking up a turntable
or record player to your equipment, please feel free to E-mail us. We’ll
do our best to help.
In the meantime, here’s the $10,000 question:
"HOW DO I PUT MY RECORDS ONTO CD?"
Transfering Your Vinyl to CD
Why would you want to do this? Five reasons:
1. Used vinyl is usually cheaper than CDs , and unless you're
collecting the 'primo' stuff as an investment , you can usually get a good sound
quality record for under five bucks.
2. Vinyl sounds better (that's right, it really does)!
3. MOST all of the NEW, 180 gm vinyl is made directly from the
master tapes. Clear, concise, you-can-hear-every-breath audio that digital CD
mastering has been (up to now anyway) unable to accomplish. Burn this record
once to CD and you'll have it forever in it's purest form.
4. Not everything will be recorded onto CD. There's just too
much music out there and with hundreds of titles being released every day, it
would be an impossible task. Even if a certain title IS released on CD, it's
run may be short. It could go OOP (Out-Of-Print) at any time.
5. You can't operate a record player in your car (although
we actually know someone who tried this).
So, how do you do it? Well, we know
how, but our technical lingo is limited to "Plug the red end into the green
hole",
so, after much research, we've put together some links that should answer your
questions and help you start transferring vinyl to CD. We guarantee this: Once
you do it, you'll be hooked.
First, you'll need a turntable or record player.
Turntables are all over the internet and can also be found at:
Radio
Shack (for around $80.00)
Circuit
City (starting at $62.99)
Sears (Starting at $99.99)
Record
Finder (prices vary)
Now you've got a turntable. What next?
This
link directs you to a very well written site explaining the why's & how's
of transferring your vinyl to CD.
This
link will take you to an article by Microsoft that will explain,
in detail, how to connect a turntable to your 'windows-based' computer. Very
informative.
Got a mac? Then go
here to learn about recording your vinyl through a Macintosh
based operation system.
As you start to record, hopefully you'll find yourself
spending more time in little record stores like ours searching for (and finding),
long overlooked titles on vinyl that you can help preserve for future generations.
It would be a shame; no, it would be a travesty if so much good music was
lost because it was forgotten and never transferred to another format.
Happy Recording!
Marvin & Deb
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