On 07/30/2010 07:07 AM, TheLastMan wrote: > Following on from EdPell's interesting query on CD collections, am I the > only one who still has a collection of LPs and is busy digitising them? > > How do you store your LPs?
I had a fairly large LP collection in the 80s, probably 300 or so. I switched to CDs (probably too early) in the mid 80s, and stopped growing the collection. When I got my first SqueezeBox, the natural question became: what do I do with my LPs? At the time, I was running a small recording studio, so I had 16 channels of 98/24 ADC into a dedicated computer with audio editing software. So the obvious thing was to connect up a turntable and phono-preamp, and record. Of course, at this point in my listening career, I no longer owned a turntable, and had no cartridge suitable. And I had long ago given my phono-preamp to a brother or nephew. I started with some jazz LPs that were long out of print. The results were good, but it took a long time. As a minimum, you need to play the LP, then listen to it, and then put it through the editing software. Three hours was a practical minimum. I decided that if I valued my time at even a fraction of minimum wage, that it was far cheaper to buy CDs of those albums that were in print. They often sell for under $10 per CD. In fact, replacing my pop/rock/folk portions was even cheaper, as the really old stuff is often sold two LPs per CD. So I decided that only important, out-of-print LPs get transferred. As for storage, they sit on the same shelf in the basement that they have been on for 25+ years. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
