Transferring Vinyl

I just hooked up my Phillips CD recorder to my stereo to duplicate the vinyls and it works correctly. I do not use special filters. I do have special digital cables when recording Cds, though , but for analog (Vinyls) recordings they are the good old quality cables I always had!

I am happy with the results and it does not fade away as taping vinyls on cassettes , however good the brand (Maxxell XL II-s) was my fave until I switched to Cd-Rs.

The sound difference is noticeable : on some compilations I make, there are Cd track and then Vinyl tracks and there are scratches and pops but who cares.... nothing shocking

I do not trust computers in transferring analog to digital or even digital to digital! Many copies of cd-Rs from friends have problems playing in most decks. I never have the problem as I use the Hi-fi option.

cobb wrote: The only way to get an exact copy is to perform a CD copy. Why do you copy them as wav's to your hard drive when roxio will do a cd to cd copy?

I can edit the waveform after that. I do this transcribing only when I wan't to do A compillation CD for my car. It's nicer to fade the beginnings and the endings of tracks from a concept album, where the music runs continuously from beginning to end. I also may amplify some of the tracks, to have more balanced volumelevel on the CD-R.

So wav is a compressed format also, with some data lost or altered from the original?

oliverstoned wrote: Here's my power amp. Highly recommended, the best price/value of the whole market Jolida 302

tubes own!!!

someday I'm gonna build me a tubestate power amp...

Wow, that's a nice player! I'll manage atleast now with LG DVX8651, as I can play my CD's and DVD's with the same machine. It supports also mpg's and divx, and it was a real lowbudget thing, about 70€.

Thanks for nice brainstroming!

oliverstoned wrote: Akai GX-95 is not too bad on a technical point, so you should use it instead of Mp3. That would be an interesting experiment for you. But it also depends on which turntable/cartridge you use.

I have Technics SL-DL1 turntable. I used to do some taping during early 90's, as my parent's car had a casette recorder. From that machine it ofcourse impossible to hear any good sound. At home I listen from a casette only those LP's I have copied from local library (not too many of them). Mainly I listen only the vinyls themselves, and not any kind of copy from them.

I don't have any mp3 on my computer or CD for listening. I also use the vinyl transcriptions only in my car, or I make a backup copy for myself of the LP's I fear I might not be able to get anymore, should they be destroyed. I also did some "party CD's" to ruin parties where I was invited, but I'm not invited to them anymore.

oliverstoned wrote: I'm not sure understanding well your question about formats being used by audio industry.

OK, it's a bit complex for me to bring my thoughts about this in english, but I'll try.

If one transfers an analog information to a digital information, then more denser the resolution of the binaries representing the soundwave should be, that closer of the original source should be the result, no? I would be interested in concrete details, how much better are the digital formats that music industry use, than the wave files used by common computer users, and in what way these sounds differ. How can the differences be heard? Me, with my bit deaf hearing, can probably be satisfied with much rougher sound than majority of the people.

I respect and like analog technology and products done with it much more than of digital techology. But we're living in digital world, and I'll try to seek ways of bringing some analog content I like to some of the digitalized enviroments I'll have to be in. The opinnions of imitating alive sound with a computer could be taken to a level, where one can state that technology of any kind cannot bring the hoped result: real analog sound. It's allways plain binaries. The whole lifetime of the universe isn't enough for any kind of computer of any technology, to calculate and represent the fysiological phenomenons in quantum scale, which make the sounds appear to our world.

Ouch, I think my braincapacity is running out...

But there's some nice aspects of digitalization, like this forum and this discussion we're having!

Ops, what a mess my post was!