How much are you willing to spend? I picked up my Tascam DA-3000 refurbished for $599. It brings back that ol' school finger hovering over the record button feeling from the 80's.
@Melvillian@JK47 The thing is though; I don’t have a turntable...
I’m only interested in getting the music to my NAS. There’s some artists I like who’s insisting on releasing some of their music on vinyl only. For some I’ve reached out to the labels and gotten .wav’s sent to me, but I still have a bunch of vinyls that I wish to hear :-D
Well, you need a proper interface, ADC as well as DAC and... Oh my god you've got an ADI-2 Pro! It's almost criminal not to use that for digitising your LPs!
But... no deck. Hmmm... Borrow one? Short term investment?
The biggest thing, though, is not the deck and the ADC but the hours and hours of work that it takes unless your records are miracle-clean. It is a real labour of love.
You'll bever get rid of all the vinyl noise unless you are very highly skilled. But that's ok! You brain has got used to it being there. I have nice, clean digital copies of stuff where my brain misses those noises!
Maybe you want to commision ChrisF to do some vinyl rips. He is very good at it, and is in the Audio mixing/mastering industry I believe (specializes in Salsa music).
Murfie.com has 1-year memberships for $49 if you join be the end of the year and part of the membership includes them taking your vinyl and digitizing it. May be worth looking into even with the overseas shipping if the other guys are charging that much.
Well, you are going to be listening to the results for ever more, so, one that you would want to listen to anyway. I'd argue (many would disagree) that your digitised results (sans noise you manage to get rid of) can and should sound like the source turntable/pre-amp.
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