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"Ripping" Turntables on eBay ?????

Sportlark64

Sportlark64

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I've seen a few of these turntables on eBay that with the program you can Rip your vinyl into your PC .
What's the frequency , Kenneth?
Are they woth it ?
Steve
 
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Pass on all that I have seen.....

Get a decent sound card and a decent turntable, and use Audacity and do it yourself. MUCH better than anything that is packaged.
 
As the others have said, they're awful things comparable in build quality to a free McDonalds toy.

A good used turntable, a preamp and a sound card shouldn't cost more than a new USB turntable. It'll also sound a lot better to boot. You don't need a preamp if you hook the turntable into your reciever/amp and connect the computer to a tape output.

Oh, and the same company who sells the USB turntables are also doing tape decks. I don't see the point in this when a 3.5mm to phono lead with an ordinary tape deck fulfills the same purpose...
 
How do you connect a computer to a tape output? Do you connect RCA cables to a USB cable somehow? Are there RCA/USB adapters available commercially or would I need an interface box?
 
classic carl said:
How do you connect a computer to a tape output? Do you connect RCA cables to a USB cable somehow? Are there RCA/USB adapters available commercially or would I need an interface box?
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Just get an RCA to 3.5mm cable and run the line out from the tape deck into the line in of your sound card. Then get something like Audacity to record it.
 
I saw one of these in one of the wholesale places here in Hong Kong. I could have bought it for real peanuts, but you couldn't pay me enough to get me to use it. The comparison to a McDonald's toy is appropriate; the build quality was really cheesy. Cheap plastic, lightweight platter, just cheap and light and obviously incapable of doing a good job. Might get sound from the record into the computer, but it wouldn't be hi-fi sound. :no: Definitely worth a pass. :thumbsdn:

I wondered briefly when I saw it why no one has tried making a GOOD one, then it hit me: the target market for these is probably not audiophiles who want to have their music on both platforms, but more likely those who have a bunch of old records they'd like to "upgrade" into their computers to keep listening to them, but whose old record player died a long time ago. Most of these people won't want to continue spinning the actual LPs. They just want a relatively cheap way to transfer the music, so the TTs are made to a very cheap price point. Buy TT, use it to get all your records transferred into the PC, then --since the TT was cheap to begin with-- chuck it out (eBay it, whatever) along with the LPs. At least I suspect that might be the intention.

"Audio people" who VALUE their LPs enough to want to keep them and who just want to put the music into the computer for convenience, etc... will probably have (or get) a better TT anyway, and won't usually mind making the transfer using a soundcard, Audacity, etc...
 
There are some decent solutions out there ( Pro-Ject Debut USB ) and you can find a lot of DACs that have USB connectivity now. USB signals are a lot different than RCA analog so you can't just split a couple of wires into RCA plugs and have it work.

The simplest solution is just as mentioned. I had an old Technics integrated with a phono section. I just ran the tape out to my PC line-in. Just be careful with levels and such. Once you get the hang of using Audacity (its a bit quirky) you'll be pumping out high quality RIPs in no time.

Frankly though - why not just throw the vinyl on the old TT and let it play?! If you want music for your iPod just listen to different stuff!
 
I always play vinyl at home if I have the record. I don't own an Ipod, but I might want to burn a record to CD to play in the car or copy the music files to my computer at work via flash drive. I have plugged my computer into AUX before from the 3.5 mm headphone jack to play thru my system, but have never tried to input to the computer. I didn't know I had a line-in on my laptop other than USB. I'll check it out tonight. Thanks.
 
classic carl said:
I didn't know I had a line-in on my laptop other than USB. I'll check it out tonight. Thanks.
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Most laptops lack a line-in connector (I know Thinkpads have one for sure though) - all they have is an output and mono microphone input with phantom power.
 
I just "riped" some records yesterday to make a mix CD for my car. Used my Dual 1009 connected to my Realistic STA-85 receiver (as a pre-amp) and then used an RCA to 3.5 cable to run it into the line in on my computer and recorded it with Audacity. Works great.
 
I bought a little box from Parts Express (luckily they're about 10 minutes from the house) that is essentially an external sound card, it has RCA plugs on one side and a USB cable coming out the other. I have Audicity for software, but it is really complex, and I'm looking for something simpler. Most computers don't have an internal sound card that will work very well. I could plug a cable connector into the mic imput on my laptop, but it would only input mono then. This box (Beringer, I think) is only $40, and seems to work well. Audicity, on the other hand would work better if I only had a Master's degree in Audio Engineering. Unfortunately, I don't. :(
 
scubaguy10 said:
I bought a little box from Parts Express (luckily they're about 10 minutes from the house) that is essentially an external sound card, it has RCA plugs on one side and a USB cable coming out the other. I have Audicity for software, but it is really complex, and I'm looking for something simpler. Most computers don't have an internal sound card that will work very well. I could plug a cable connector into the mic imput on my laptop, but it would only input mono then. This box (Beringer, I think) is only $40, and seems to work well. Audicity, on the other hand would work better if I only had a Master's degree in Audio Engineering. Unfortunately, I don't. :(
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Audacity was VERY hard for me to use when I first started....then I started getting used to it, and now I LOVE IT.

FWIW, try Wavepad from www.downoad.com.
 
"Rip(off)" Turntables

Man you guys are good ! Glad I asked here first . I had seen them and had them saved in my ebay favs. Just a bunch of Plastic-not-so-fantastic BS.
I'm trying to find out which sound card my PC has
but I don't know where to look . I have my Real stereo system out in my shop . I spend alot hours out there . So everything lives out there . I've got my CD collection here in my office . I just wanted to be able to listen to my records on disc because of the type of work I do (body work, auto painting,construction etc.) I don't have alot of LP's (100 +-) . So there is a major problem of stopping and putting on another LP . Radio gets on my last nerve . Lotta th S.O..S. & their "Deep Cuts" and 40 min. music blocks give way to dumb ass commercials for 10 minutes .
With this cold weather I've spent the last 10 days framing in,wiring,insulating and sheet-rocking my new bathroom and upstairs storage . I'm usually out in the shop 8-10 hours depending on how the job is going and my mood . I usually leave the building projects , slash cutting and tree cutting for winter because of the heat here .
Thanks for the heads-up on that ebay $h!te .
Steve
 
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