Nonreality;346950 Wrote: > Thankful once again that my inferior hearing has not only saved me money > but a ton of hassle. This doesn't sound like fun converting from vinyl > for what ever reason to digital. If the digital world doesn't sound > right to you how does converting to it make it right? I'm just > confused here. I guess I can see it if it's all you have for the > source. It seems that all you would get is the clicks and scratches of > vinyl and not the essence of what you are trying for. I would think > that you get that just by playing it through your equipment for vinyl. > Like I said I may be totally wrong here.
The digital world sounds perfectly right to me! That is why I have a CD player and a Squeezebox. However before I got the CD player I had built up a collection of 300 LPs, and continued to buy them even after I bought the CD player as they were generally cheaper. I remember going to a record store that was going "all CD" and selling off its LP stock at £1 a disk. I think I bought about 60, which was all I could carry on three trips between the store and the car! I now have a collection of over 500 LPs and the point of this thread was really only a side issue. The main reason I am turning all my LPs into digital files is for convenience - all the same reasons you would rip your CDs to your music server. In other words so that I can listen to them at the touch of a remote control button in the living room, kitchen and on my laptop - wherever that is. I often work on the laptop with headphones on and Softsqueeze playing some music in the background. I usually listen to the LPs as I am recording them, and listening to LPs is what I do a lot of anyway! The only extra time taken is in converting the recorded WAV file into tagged FLAC files - which takes about 15 minutes a disk. It could be about 5 minutes if Spin It Again supported FLAC. The alternative is, of course, to replace my LPs with CDs and rip those instead. However, at an average of around £10 each that would be £5,000 ($10,000). Not money I have at the moment. Ripping the LPs essentially costs nothing so it's a bit of a no-brainer really. The odd pop and click does not bother me. I have been happily listening to LPs with their pops and clicks for 35 years since I bought my first LP (Elton John's "Don't shoot me I'm only the Piano Player"). And you would be surprised how unintrusive those pops and clicks are when you play the LP on a good turntable like the Linn. Phil: I am aware of the acoustic feedback issue with turntables and always listen on headphones when recording an LP. -- TheLastMan Matt SB Duet, Synology Diskstation 107+ with FW 2.0-0600 SqueezeCenter 7.2 and SSODS 3 beta 15. Naim 42/110 amp, B&W CM2 speakers. LPs ripped using Linn LP12, Naim 72/Hi-cap, M-Audio 2496. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53264
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