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Re: Re: [LUG] Transferring music records to disc



On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 06:05:59PM +0100, paul wrote:
I thought you needed a pre amp for this,  or does the player have this
already?

to summarise:
1) if you take a signal directly from the cartidge on the record player, if
you have a seperate record deck where you can do this you must apply RIAA
equalisation to the signal, or else there will be a slight distortion in it

2) you can record from a headphone socket or anything else you choose to.
However the quality of signal will be better if the path is just through
the preamp.  The headphone out doesn't give such a good quality signal as it
is designed to drive headphones.  Also there may be an impedance problem 

3) it is possibly worth mentioning that the best quality analogue -> computer
recordings are made using a "breakout box" where the analogue signal is 
converted to a digital audio stream external to the (electrically) noisey
inards of the PC



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