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Old 24th March 2009
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Originally Posted by running_fist View Post
DrJ - Man do I have a lot of catching up to do.
Well, a lot of this depends on how much of a perfectionist you want to be. Analog records and turntables really are Rube Goldberg devices, but they got to be incredibly refined (at a cost). I'm amazed that they make decent sound at all, let alone very, very good sound when everything is right.

If you intend to get high-quality sound from the records you have, and play the digital conversions back through solid electronics and good loudspeakers, then you have to be careful to get everything toed in. It will also cost you some money. If you intend to listen to them over a consumer home theater system, or computer speakers, fidelity is just not as important.

It also depends on how many you are converting. Certainly if you convert 1000 records the economics become different than if you convert only 10 or 20. The former case merits some $$, whereas the latter probably does not.
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