You can also use it to play your "records" through the relatively high end, (at least as good sound to my ear as a good consumer grade component audio system), speakers and sub-woofer that come with most mid range computers. I know people who do both.
Tom Cakalic wrote: > And just what is the point of having a turntable with a USB connector? I > can tell you. > > It's to convert the analog vinyl content to a digital format, likely .mp3, > so that once that piece of vinyl is played and converted, it'll probably > never see the light of day again. > > > Tom C. > > > >> From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: FID (Film is Dead) >> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:30:00 -0400 >> >> Hell you can buy a turntable with a USB connector... >> >> David J Brooks wrote: >> >>> Can't agree totally on that Tom.. >>> >>> Vinyl seems to be holding on to a share in this area, small but >>> >> still.......... >> >>> One of the bigger stereo places that have been around for a long time, >>> are advertising players again. >>> >>> My records are going no were.:-) >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> On 8/6/07, Tom Cakalic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Yeah, so I can just go down and take my pick right? Any new CD, any >>>> >> old CD >> >>>> still in distribution, I can go get a brand new vinyl version? I >>>> >> don't >> >>>> think so. >>>> >>>> Vinyl is dead in in the eyes of the vast music buying public. From >>>> >> what I >> >>>> understand CD's are going the same route when it comes to sales from >>>> >> retail >> >>>> stores. What will save the CD format for a while is that is that >>>> >> people >> >>>> need a recordable, portable medium to store digital music on. >>>> >>>> Tom C. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> From: John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> >>>>> From: >>>>> "Tom C" >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>> Film may see a renaissance of sorts, though I doubt it. More likely, >>>>>>> within >>>>>>> a very few years it will become so financially unworthwhile to >>>>>>> manufacture >>>>>>> that even the Chinese will give up on making it, and that will be >>>>>>> >> the >> >>>>>>> end of >>>>>>> the line for it. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> This is the statement I agree with most out of the whole thread. I >>>>>> >> see >> >>>>>> film almost the same as I see vinyl records. There will be under 1% >>>>>> of the consumer base that cares about film, even B&W film. What most >>>>>> people see in a B&W photo is the absence of color, not the nuances >>>>>> that can be had by using certain films and processing techniques. I >>>>>> don't see a film renaissance either, it's just common sense. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Except that some 20+ years after CDs "killed" vinyl records, you can >>>>> still get new ones. You do have to make some record to find 'em, but >>>>> they're available. >>>>> >>>>> I fully expect film to hang in there the same way. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> -- >> The difference between Microsoft and 'Jurassic Park': >> In one, a mad businessman makes a lot of money with beasts that should be >> extinct. >> The other is a film. >> -- Unattributed >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > > -- The difference between Microsoft and 'Jurassic Park': In one, a mad businessman makes a lot of money with beasts that should be extinct. The other is a film. -- Unattributed -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
