I have an Akai turntable without a built-in amplifier & would like to transfer my LP’s to my PC. Do I need to buy a separate amplifier or can I use the amplifier/receiver from a home theatre system?
You should be able to go directly from the turntable to the PC with the proper cable.
Adding the home theater amplifier would just be an extra step that could degrade the signal.
July 29th, 2010 at 6:22 am
You should be able to go directly from the turntable to the PC with the proper cable.
Adding the home theater amplifier would just be an extra step that could degrade the signal.
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The cable costs almost as much as the turntable setups, but this should give you an idea.
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2973468&filterName=Category
July 29th, 2010 at 6:55 am
You can use your amplifier! It only requires a special chord that hooks up into your Computer. I don’t know what it’s called but I found one once in a 99 cents store! It had a red and white hook up with a computer connection for your sound card on the other end. What’s real important is the software you are going to use. There are many to pick from. I would recommend you find Musicmatch. I believe it’s free…the basic version if not just download it from Piratebay.org. If you’re unfamiliar with Piratebay, do some research and you will love it, especially if you love music the way I do. Actually you can probably skip the LP transfer and just find all of your music on Piratebay! It’s considered "illegal" but I never considered sharing casette tapes with my buddies illegal. Anyhow Musicmatch allowed me to transfer some of my dad’s LP’s from back in the day from Mexico. I used Musicmatch. You can even go into settings and have it stop and re-record between pauses to seperate tracks! You can even rename the tracks from the software. It was awesome! There was a learning curve but it wasn’t hard. I had converted some LP’s into mp3s and my uncles were loving them because you couldn’t find those artists nowhere! Seriously though…save yourself the headache and learn Piratebay! If you’re interested in saving the integrity of the LP sound (like some die hard music collectors are) you can download Flac files instead of mp3’s. The compression is a lot less and so the sound is the closest to an actual LP. Flac files are bigger and therefore take up more space but every collector is different. I’ve been collecting digital music for over 10 years now and I love Piratebay! I like it because you can find complete albums to download and often times ALL the albums from a particular artist! Awesome or what? Google and research anything you learned from my email that is new to you. Trust me if you just want music to collect and listen to and share…save yourself the headache and get into PirateBay. You will also need Vuze. They work together and are both FREEEEEEEEEEEEE! My favorite word! Vote me Best Answer please! -Robert
Also…if you start downloading mp3’s like I advised and are interested in having a jukebox type of setup from home you can use Musicmatch too but I would strongly, and highly urge you to get into iTunes! It took me a while but now I loooooooove iTunes and it is the best musicplayer/organizer/jukebox bar NONE hands down! I have all the album covers for all my albums and I can play anything in seconds from my PC! It’s also freeeeeeeeeeeeee! I love the internet!! Take care and good luck!
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July 29th, 2010 at 7:39 am
You need the receiver, because that one has a pre-amplifier required for a turntable. The turntable itself does not give a usable signal for the PC input levels. But you can effectively connect the Tape Out (never the loudspeaker connections!!) or something similar from the receiver, preferably to a line-in on the PC. Soundcards tend to have line-in connector, a laptop does not always. In that case you’ll need to find another type of input and hope that the impedances match.
I’ve used audiograbber to convert my vinyl records, but I just noticed that the site http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/ is off-line now. Check if you can find the SW elsewhere on the Internet or look for a similar one thata automatically splits the tracks into different files.
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