i agree on every single point you can buy technics1200 for 200$ or less and riaa preamps on ebay for 15$, yeah that s not top of the line stuff but if you pick a decent cartdrige you re all done, add a good soundcard of course. the only reason to use usb turntables would be for timecoded vinyls take care simone
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Evan Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ughgh (shivers..) Usb and turntable, do those even belong in the same > sentence? > If you still have the receipt, return it. > You can rent good turntables for like a month and a preamp. Somthing > that acctually has mass. Or even buy a good table, tonearm, cartridge > and preamp, and then connect them to your regular audio interface. Way > better sound quality, and reduces pips and pops. While also getting a > more true sound reproduction that you would be used to. For example, you > probably without a good tonearm are not getting much bass or treble > reproduction. Good heavy tonearms are the way to go. Also a good > cartridge, similar to having a decent sounding mic is critical. Mics > have different responses and so do cartridges. The turntable/platter > itself is just a motor and a platter. Here your looking for good heavy > platters on isolators that are not susceptible to noise transmitting > from furniture. The motor your just looking for something that is quiet > and maintains the correct speed. Go bumming around garage sales, or pawn > shops, I once heard of a guy who found a $15,000 phono setup not to > mention the stereo and he bought it all for $100. Nobody wanted it > because of the weight. Anyways it cam with two dynamic accustats, and a > sub, Rotel power and pre-amps. All because they "didn't work" one > replace of some old glass style fuses and everything came to life. The > speakers needed to be rebuilt, ($350 a piece) but he resold them (he had > B&W 802) to a friend for a sweet deal. (not as sweet as the $100) $1500 > a piece. Just look around, you can find a better turntable, its not > worth it to rip in vinyl at Mp3 when you can really take full advantage > of a Record. > > > On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 08:00 -0500, Fred Schuelzky wrote: > > Andrew Hunter wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Andrew Hunter wrote: > > > | Fred Schuelzky wrote: > > > | | Andrew Hunter wrote: > > > | | Fred Schuelzky wrote: > > > | | | Andrew Hunter wrote: > > > | | | Fred Schuelzky wrote: > > > | | | | Hello > > > | | | | I upgraded to Hardy last nite, and so far I can't get the os > to > > > | | | see my > > > | | | | usb turntable. I couldn't get it to work properly under Gutsy > but it > > > | | | was > > > | | | | recognized. > > > | | | > > > | | | Please attach the output of "lsusb -v" and "dmesg | tail" (after > > > pluging > > > | | | in the device). > > > | | | > > > | | | Thanks, > > > | | | > > > | | | Andrew. > > > | | | > > > | | |> > > > | | > > > | | | Hi Andrew > > > | | | Was it you that answered a previous message of mine?? Some > how I > > > | | | lost those messages in the bowels of Thunderbird, sorry. > > > | | > > > | | | The attachment is in abiword format couldn't get it to paste into > open > > > | | | office format. > > > | | > > > | | A plain text file would be preferable. You can redirect the output of > > > | | the commands with the > operator in bash. ie: > > > | | > > > | | lsusb -v > lsusb.txt > > > | | > > > | | Then attach lsusb.txt > > > | | > > > | | > > > | | Thanks, > > > | | > > > | | Andrew > > > | |> > > > | | Andrew > > > | | Where does the output from this command go lsusb -v > > lsusb.txt? I ran > > > | | it in shell and nothing seems to happen. > > > | > > > | Look in the directory you ran the command in. You can specify it > > > | explicitly. For example lsusb -v > ~/lsusb.txt will redirect the output > > > | to lsusb.ext in your home folder. > > > > > > lsusb.txt rather. > > > > > > | > > > | | Thanks Fred > > > | > > > | > > > | > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) > > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkgcXn8ACgkQSyj78chr9d9KbgCgtiW//zsasyvX1Evh+bLDD+5I > > > Mk0An0Kt6rypR0lOmt7xoJA+rsg+mxv5 > > > =j2BL > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > Andrew > > I found the lsusb.text file, according to Dolphin it is 59.kb. > > According to the list moderator this is to big. > > Whats neat and I appreciate it, is that I am learning.....may not be > > about turntables but I'm learning more about the operating system and > > command line usage. > > I gotta go to work. > > > > Thanks > > fred > > > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > -- .wmv , .wma , .pps along with all proprietary Windows formats won t be accepted and/or viewed.... -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
