29 Oct
2005
29 Oct
'05
10:08 p.m.
On 10/30/05, Richard Smith <smithbone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
STR8-100 are nice. Solid, reliable and not too expensive. I've never
tried the s-pdif on it and unless you have a pretty crap sound card
(anything by creative) i'd assume it's worse than just recording the
analog. But the analog should be quite nice. Playing 78's on a modern
turntable is a cool feature. Get this and the cheapest ortofon e
needles you can get.
Loki
software seems
like it would be horrible to me. Buy or borrow a decent
turntable. A few modern ones can play all three, for instance stuff
from stanton. Though don't touch there needles, they are crap. To
This may be getting too OT so let me know if I need go off-list.
I've been looking at some turntables from Stanton. How do the DJ tables
fair?
Fex. The stanton STR8-100 looks sweet. It has S-PDIF, phono, and line
outputs and it will play 78's. I can get a used one off of ebay for
$100 bucks or so. Most of the other decks I saw are just a bit out
of my range.
That lets me do a flat preamp if I choose to mess with all that, but I
can also just use the S-PDIF or Line with the built in RIAA. And 78's
without resorting to software correction.
I didn't realize the S/N ratio on turntables was so low. What would
those who on have messed with this before consider acceptable?
--
Richard A. Smith