2 inch tape baby! You can't get that quality using home equipment.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Seed" <bobs...@tbaytel.net> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 9:59 AM Subject: Re: Seeking information on USB turntables Not so, although you may think it is because you are playing it on the same equipment that it was recorded on. Take that same recording and bring it to a professional studio and you will quickly notice the difference. Having said that there are recording artists that record their songs at home in order to save money on professional recordings, and the quality of their recording is acceptable to be put on a CD. The standards for home recording equipment is improving dramatically, and definitely meets the standards of low end professional equipment. Most radio stations that play CD's on air use home equipment, as it is much cheaper, and when it breaks down they throw it away and simply get a new machine. Professional broadcast quality CD players sell for over two-thousand dollars for a single unit, and a home unit can be purchased for under a hundred bucks. You would be hard pressed to detect the difference in audio playback quality between a home and professional unit on a broadcast station. By the time that signal leaves the studio and ends up on your receiver it goes through a number of changes. Audio processing and equalization are just a few of these changes that take place in the chain of events between the studio, transmitter, and your receiver. Broadcast engineers do their best to make sure that the quality of their audio is as close as possible to the quality of the audio that leaves the studio. The best analogy that I can think of is a water treatment plant that cleans up your drinking water. To some people the taste of the water is acceptable, and to others the taste of chlorine in the water is unacceptable. The audio debate will definitely take on another form once we move into HD digital broadcast audio. ---- Original Message ----- From: "Sunshine" <sunsh...@abe.midco.net> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 8:28 AM Subject: Re: Seeking information on USB turntables bruce i would have to respectifully disagree with you with a good home recording set up you can get the same pro recordings as the pro's do, and so for those of you who like to do the restoration of vinal, tapes, 78's and lps and reels and the like go for it ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews" <br...@ogts.net> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 1:42 AM Subject: Re: Seeking information on USB turntables Are professionally-produced CD's of the albums you're interested in not available? They may well have much better sound than anything you could produce with home-grown equipment. Bruce -- Bruce Toews Proud JAWS User Skype ID: o.canada E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: br...@ogts.net LiveJournal: http://masterofmusings.livejournal.com Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Gary Wood wrote: > Well maybe I'LL have to settle for getting a cassette deck that plugs into > my > computer and putting the cassette copy I have on the harddrive, and then > transfer to CD, but a problem with this is that then, it's a second > generation copy, and I hear those aren't as good as a first one! > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray" <rays-h...@raynetbrm.plus.com> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 4:11 PM > Subject: RE: Seeking information on USB turntables > > > Must say Dave, simply from my impressions of the ION USB turntable I saw, > the build quality didn't seem impressive so I'm inclined to think these > turntables are very basic performers technically. > > I'd much sooner go for a Hi Fi turntable with magnetic cartridge and a > good > pre-amp. These cost! > > Either that or consider using a company doing vinyl transfer as a paid-for > service. > > After all is said though, depends entirely on how critical you are about > sound quality. I've yet to start transfering my treasured vinyls but I > know > it is going to be time-consuming. > > Hope these thoughts are of some help. > > Ray. > Dave McElroy WA6BEF wrote: > In a word, awful. <lol> > > > -----Original Message----- > On Behalf Of André van Deventer > Subject: RE: Seeking information on USB turntables > > I'm just wondering what quality of turntable these will be. > > > > -----Original Message----- > On Behalf Of Ray > Subject: Re: Seeking information on USB turntables > > Well, there were such things as Music Centres - as we called them here in > Brittain - which combined turntables with cassette decs. Still we're > talking 'old' here, and I guess you want a USB hardware device that does > the > two. > > I've not seen an USB combi anywhere for transfering old anoalogue stuff. > I > know here a brand called ION has seemingly cornered the market in three > seperate units that do vinyl records, audio cassettes, and VHS videos. > So > I if you've not held on to the various old stuff that could have done this > via hooking through a converter, then this is the only way to go. > > Ray. > > > > > Jonathan Mosen List Founder > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Jonathan Mosen List Founder > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. 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