USB Turntables
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Hello.
I've got loads of vinyl that I want to transfer to my PC. I'm happy enough just outputting from headphone to microphone but I seem to remember seeing a USB turntable that would record at 10*speed to make things a wee bit quicker.
Trouble is I can't seem to find one.
Anyone got any idea what I'm looking for here?
Goodbye.
Hello.
Yes, I tried that but they're not the one's that record at 10*speed. Thanks anyway.
Goodbye.
Ah I see,
I don't see how 10speed ones would work- the force would surely force the head out of its tracks?
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Even if it didn't, the force on the head would probably affect the quality of the audio since it will put more pressure on one side of the stylus than would normally be there. I'm being theoretical here- I have no idea if its true.
I'd agree, at 10x the slightest imperfection on the vinyl would make the needle jump.
Yeah - when I used to muck about with my record player as a kid by spinning it around by hand, the needle would just fly off if you went too fast. I'm betting that speed was way below x10, too. :)
You can get turntables with laser styluses.
You can get turntables with laser styluses.
Really?! Neat.
Last time I came across the laser turn table, the price was about $10,000 for a unit since they wasn't enough demand to actually mass-produce them. I doubt that changed much over the past couple of years.
If you happen to have a large scanner: there's even some piece of software around that allows you to do a high-resolution scan of a record, afte which a special piece of software can analyze the image of the LP and reconstruct the music for you by optically following the groove. :-)
I heard laser turntables were bobbins anyway. You have to clean the record so hard for it not to sound rubbish that you end up doing more damage than the stylus.
If you happen to have a large scanner: there's even some piece of software around that allows you to do a high-resolution scan of a record, afte which a special piece of software can analyze the image of the LP and reconstruct the music for you by optically following the groove. :-)
*starts coding*
The other things with the laser doofers was that the record was sucked onto the deck (or something) as it had to be totally flat.
Think it was one of those things that was a nice idea but never really worked.
Well.. I don't worry about the speed so I've ordered one of those USB turntables. It'll be interesting to see what kind of quality it will produce. In any case there will be plenty of nights to enjoy while listening to some of the oldies from yesteryear.
Barney