Hi,
I got a fantastic deal from Absolut Music in Poole. It was a Tapco LinkUSB musicians audio interface. It works with ubuntu and as far as my tests have gone pretty good.
It's 24 bit, bidirectional at all sampling rates below 88kHz and unidirectional at 88 and 96kHz. has a built in mic amp with phantom power if you need it. I think I paid £69 for it (rrp £199)
Cheers,
Paul.
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-----Original Message-----
From: trotter <m.nuttall@???>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:55:27
To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List<hampshire@???>
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue
At 18:41 30/03/2009, you wrote:
>trotter wrote:
> > At 10:19 30/03/2009, you wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> A bit OT I know but I am hoping that someone somewhere has encountered
> >> this issue or at least something similar.
> >>
> >> Basically I have a Pro-ject Debut II turntable hooked up to a Pro-Ject
> >> Phono Box II USB phono stage.
> >>
> >
> > Decent beginner turntable.
> >
>
>Heh, it was all I could afford at the time - a used 'bargain' from ebay.
>Badly packaged, it arrived in a 'kit form' never intended by the
>manufacturers, and a combination of postal insurance and a partial
>refund made it viable once the replacement parts had been purchased.
>It's actually in great condition now and sounds good to my
>none-too-discerning ears.
>
>I recall that it nearly cost me a great deal more than money when my
>wife discovered I wanted to start buying vinyl again!
>
>;-)
I have a projective perspective which was £600 new but i picked it
up for £400 on ebay. Unfortunately vinyl hardware is expensive for
sound that is better than cd. CD is better bang for buck unfortunately.
I enjoy trawling car boot sales for vinyl.
Then cleaning them up with disco knosti antistat fluid bath.
> >> It occurs to me that the alternative is to unhook the phono stage from
> >> the amp and attach it to the line-in
> >>
> >
> >
> > Is that the line in on the amp?
> >
>
>I was actually thinking of going from phono stage line-out to laptop
>audio line-in, via a cable to convert phono leads to a 3.5mm jack plug,
>but yes it occurs to me now that you mention it that I may be by-passing
>the DAC device in the phono stage by doing this.
>
>I ripped my copy of De Stijl by The White Stripes today and got an
>excellent result. The problem is that it is currently a lottery as to
>what input levels I get!
Unfortunately line in on sound cards are frankly abysmal quality
wise. In a recent PC pro magazine feature on ripping vinyl it stated that
you really need to buy a sound card close to £100 for anything remotely
decent.
This put me off doing it with a PC so i am sticking with MiniDisc
for now. Besides its easier that way.
Martin N
Co-Moderator of MiniDisc and amithlonopen yahoo groups.
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