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David Nebenzahl

On 6/29/2009 10:17 PM spake thus:

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:51:38 -0700, David Nebenzahl
wrote:

On 6/29/2009 8:37 PM Pdk Pdk spake thus:

Looking to buy my brother something to record his old vinyl
collection onto a computer.
A local store has a closeout sale on Ion USB turntables for $75 each.
As a technical weakling, I'm consulting y'all to see if anyone's
tried this unit or has any ideas regarding what I should be looking for.
It seems like an easy to use unit, but I don't want to buy the wrong
thing.

I'd be skeptical. Sounds like it might be a real POS.

Why not just get a *real* turntable (there are still ****loads of them
out there for sale) and run it through any inexpensive receiver? You'll
get much better results that way.

(But no, I haven't actually tried these devices.)

I agree I found a Dual on Ebay for $20 and it looked brand new. All I
had to do was hook the cartridge output to the MIC IN on the sound
card with an RCA to 1/8" phono adapter and I was ripping vinyl.

Can't see how that could work well at all; microphone inputs aren't made
for magnetic cartridges. RIAA equalization and all that, you know.

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