Does anyone here use a digital Mp3 converting turntable?
Any recommendations?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Find a decent, working turntable from the 70's or 80's. Connect it to a cheap phono preamp & connect that to a computer. You'll get much better results for not a lot of money. Should be able to find plenty of turntables for under $50 at thrift stores, garage sales, craigslist, etc, & a new preamp on Amazon for about the same. Use Audacity for recording & encoding, which is free. The modern all-in-one units are very cheaply made & will generally give terrible results.
davyjones
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July 10, 2018
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I have a turntable already.
@LimitedLight and you're right. I've no idea what a "pre-amp" is 
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@LimitedLight Electronic Industrial 
Altho here's an industrial band.
I only have this on cassette. Now I DO have a cassette mp3 converter but haven't even taken it out of the box to play with it 
But I'm getting REAL SICK of having vinyl that I can't find an mp3 download for anywhere. I"ve got tons of vinyl that needs converting 
His advice was to get the (phono) pre-amp on Amazon -- get the turntable at a thrift store. My non technical understanding of a pre amp (as I would have to google it to explain it) is that it's what powers or makes a device (in this case a turntable) compatible with another. There are many top end turntables that require a pre amp as a matter of course if you want to listen to records through your stereo (amp or receiver). I bought a cheap one for around $10 on Amazon, but don't know if that would allow the turntable to be hooked up to a computer.
@shayne69 - That's exactly what it would do. It would increase the output voltage of the turntable to match up with the line in connection on the computer & allow recording. I would've been happy to guide them through the process, but the fact that they were so quick to dismiss my suggestion without question, why bother? No good deed goes unpunished
@LimitedLight from what I can tell (have on speaker) sounds good to me so far. Thank you!
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