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An analog question for those who record

I am going to buy either a reel to reel or a VHS recorder to record my vinyl onto for repeated playbacks. Is recording vinyl possible by simply hooking my preamp up to a VCR hitting record and dropping the needle. This would be ideal as it has a long run time via the VCR tapes. I have heard VCRS have good analog sound. Should I just go with a reel to reel? Cassettes arent really an option but I have heard some recordings from vinyl onto cassette that sound great. I also am aware of digital recording using audacity and have used it hundreds of times. However I like analog and if I want digital I will just pop in a cd. Do you think there would be a huge difference in the quality one way or another.
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astralography
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Why not just keep and play your records? If you want to preserve them .. just take care of them and buy a quality cleaning machine.

Nothing wrong with a nice clean open reel deck. Plenty of them around, and not hard to take care of them as people say.

What is hard is listening to digital music.. too hard on my ears.

Music should never be a digital experience anywhere along the chain from recording to playback. It's convenient, but if you prefer digital, your ears are simply not trained properly.
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