i use an audiophile 24/96 soundcard made by midiman, which has gold plated rca inputs. i use "lp recorder", a great little program, to record the lp's, and "lp ripper" to break them into tracks and edit intro's and outro's. i then use mp3 to cd, which will take the .wav's created by lp ripper and burn them to cd. you'll have to register all of the programs, but ince you learn how to use them, they are utterly fantastic. the cds created are so close to the actual cd pressings, that cddb usually recognizes the album when i put it in my drive. and the quality is outstanding. in some cases as good as the official cd pressings. all of the programs i mentioned are shareware, but you'll need to register them after a few uses. they're well worth the price. i've archived many an lp. . .
Methods for transfer of albums to CD
A friend of mine has a very large collection of mint albums, including a beatles import box set, and a franklin mint jazz anthology which includes some fantastic music. I own a computer with a HP cd burner, Roxio Easy CD creator 5 software, but no decent sound card. I was wondering if any of you have had any success at creating good sounding CD's from vinyl, and what equipment I might need. I am sure I need a sound card for the computer with an analog and/or digital input, and one of the add on phono pre-amps, which I would likely use later to add analog to my system. Any suggestions and or experiences, both good and bad, will be appreciated. My current system:
Cary 808 amp, SLP 2002 pre-amp, Theta pro gen and Data, B&W 802 Matrix II, and a Windows 95 based PC with CD burner.
Mike
Cary 808 amp, SLP 2002 pre-amp, Theta pro gen and Data, B&W 802 Matrix II, and a Windows 95 based PC with CD burner.
Mike