Converting vinyl to digital

[ejman]

I borrowed a friend's Denon turntable to experiment with the conversion and came to the conclusion that I will just stick with the LPs and my old Dual turntable. The Denon worked well enough but it is a tedious and time consuming task. The only problem was a bit of hiss that I assume came from the Denon's DA converter. It was not there when just running analog cables to my stereo.

Pretty much where I'm at. I'll just keep my LPs and my turntables and play them and enjoy them as they are. It's just too tedious to do a proper conversion and with a lot of the music being available directly from digital sources it's not worth it. Besides I enjoy reading the LP liners and looking at the full size artwork as I listen to the LP playing as God intended

 

[Free To Canoe]

Thanks for all of the excellent responses. I am getting the info I need to make good decisions, I just need to process it. I will keep you posted.

 

[Nodak]

One more thing. As mentioned earlier, if I were going to do the conversion of all 700+ LPs that I have I would go to FLAC format instead of MP3. To me there is a noticeable loss in quality unless one uses a very high bit rate for the MP3; I would say at least 256kbps.

 

[BBQ-Nut]

And if anyone decides after converting all of your LPs you want to get rid of them, let me know, I may be interested in some!

Maybe work out a fair price to take them off of your hands.

 

[RonBoyd]

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