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A few ideas

Posted by soundnut (A) on November 25, 2005 at 13:44:56

In Reply to: Portable audio dilemma (long - sorry!) posted by maxhifi on November 24, 2005 at 14:53:11:

Hi there.

Personally, I would go with:

1) A CD recorder to burn your LPs to. Pick up a decent $40 Sony Discman & you're in business. The quality will blow any cassette Walkman away. Even a "pro" model.

2) A minidisc deck and a portable player. Expect to spend about $150 total on both on the used market. Likewise, better than cassette.

3) If you have a computer in the proximity of your audio gear, get an Edirol UA-1A USB audio interface (about $40-$60) and CoolEdit or a similar audio recording program. Then you can easily record your vinyl to digital. THEN pick up a Sony MP3/CD player (I have a $45 model from Wal-Mart that's terrific) and you'll be able to burn around 100-200 MP3s onto a CD. Quality will be comparable to minidisc. And you can burn them in the same order as the original album, or skip around. Whatever you like.

I wouldn't worry about compression with MP3s too much. I usually rip mine with a variable bitrate between 160 and 320 kbps for best quality. Pretty much indistiguishable from CDs and better than any cassette, IMO.

Good luck!
Bobbo :-)

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