CardinalFang Wrote: > I'll eventually need about a terabyte (assuming 750G after RAID5) so > that I can digitise all my LPs too (how about an LP ripping service via > one of those laser turntables anyone?:-)) There are actually quite a few LP-to-CD transfer services around. I gathered together some URLs a while back because I kept getting emails from people asking me if I knew of any (probably quite a few of them are no longer current): http://lp2cd.com/ http://www.wiltonsonic.com/ http://ozarksparadise.freeservers.com/catalog.html http://www.bluehaze.com.au/vinyl/vinyl.html http://www.thatchrisguy.com/vinyl/main.htm http://www.pastimeaudio.com/lpstocds.htm http://lpcd.cjb.net/ http://www.refreshedaudio.com/ http://www.pristineaudio.co.uk/ http://www.vinylreplica.com/ http://www.indicativeit.co.uk/yourmusiconcd http://www.shawsounds.com
I've not used any of them myself - transferring LPs is one of my hobbies, so I do it myself. I am skeptical that any commercial transfer service can afford to put in the effort required to do a really good job - they probably bung everything through an automatic restoration package, and even the best of those sometimes makes a dog's dinner of the task. (And before anyone asks: No, I can't do it for others - the effort involved in doing a decent restoration is too much to make it a viable proposition). By the way, the last turntable you'd want to use for an LP transfer service is the ELP Laser device. It is spectacularly intolerant of dust and damage. To get a decent transfer would require surgical standards of cleaning, followed by meticulous manual selection of the best part of the groove wall to trace in order to avoid the worst of the damage. -- cliveb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19656 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
