At 01:43 PM 11/24/2008, you wrote: > > I love vinyl. Lasts forever, too. > does not, degrades with every play.
Depends on how, and if you play it. Shelf life is longer than CDs, most CDs start degrading after a few years. > Does USB limit the bandwidth? Dont see any other reason for a USB TT > to be inferior. It's not about bandwidth. It's stereo, so there are no bandwidth issues. (unless you have "quad" LPs) The cheap USB turntables sound bad, and this has to do with the quality of the turntable and the inexpensive AD components in the input stage as welll as in the amplifier stage. Expensive ones sound better, but then you could get a professional quality interface that you can use for recording lute instead, and use it with your turntable. The RME box has a turntable input as well as line inputs. > > 3. If you can't deal with the whole tracking force thing, get a P > > mount model. Easy to deal with. >provided you can get stylii. Used to be Radio Shack carried em all, > and lots of audio specialty stores caried technics and other good > cartridges with replacement stylii. Used to be. Easy to get. Widely available. http://www.needledoctor.com/ > > 5. If your records are chatty & natty, they need to be cleaned. Nitty > > Gritty record cleaners for this for this, the one with the vacuum. > > Some hifi stores will do this for a few cents. > I recall ultrasonic clearners and special fluids, stuff which might > stand a chance of dealing with the kind of oil rgeasy soot typical of > new york city and other places where coal is(was) burned for power > generation. Physical contact is a nono with vinyl of course. Nitty Gritty good. Extensively tested, widely used, sterophile recommended > > > If you have a cartridge that takes one you can find available on the > market. Finding, best to stock up, keep in mind the lifetime of a good > stylus, 100 hours of play is what I recall, but that might have been > for saphire, hopefully longer for diamond, especially since industrial > diamonds are pretty cheap now. Widely available, relatively long lasting, but if you are mastering, you need it only once per disk. > > If you have something you really want some extra care applied to, > > record it twice, and edit back and forth to get the best tracking. > I have heard that Vinyl has a memory, play leaves it temporarily > distorted. Supposed to wait an hour between playings to let it > recover. Might be that ambient temperature has an effect on this too. > > EQ normally is not necessary. However, if you wish to jazz up the > > sound, record the master untouched, then apply effects to a separate > > file. Apply all effects using a minimum 24 bit master. > > If you Turntable has rumble > you should get one that doesnt. Place it on a massive table which is > vibration-isolated to minimize the effect of outside vibrations (street > traffic, sonic booms, gallomping children) Rumble can come through the air, and if it does, it will rumble. The sound waves can be picked up by the tonearm, are a combination of any of the frequency sensitive parts. If your floor is vibrating, it will be difficult to make a good transfer as the air will vibrate as well. Some turntables, even high quality ones, simply rumble internally. > You want your take-off to be as close to a master as you can get it. > If any of the audio cables are long they should be large in size to > maximize signal strength. Short cables are a good idea. Don't spend more than a dollar per foot. Belden digital cable has very low capacitance; Canare, Mogami and Gepco are also good. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
