Since I am Classical Music Lover, only interested in playing my vinyl, no transfers to CD,might I get better sound elsewhere?
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Honestly, I am not sure. We used the Audio Technica to transfer our vinyl to CD; not to listen to the records.
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Leonard, I gifted the Audio Technica turntable to a friend, thus, I cannot specifically answer your question with any authority. However, I have read that "purists" swear by a virgin vinyl recording played through an excellent turntable (into a very high quality amplifier with top signal-to-noise specs), as having superior dynamic range - as compared to a digital rendition of the same musical selection. To my untrained ears, the digital rendition, captured at the right sample and bit rate, will ALWAYS sound superior to any analog playback. This is simply due to things like wow, flutter, low frequency rumble, and other such artifacting that is unique to the analog playback process using a turntable. Then there is always the ever-present noise that can often be introduced in (both vacuum tube and solid state) preamps and routine audio frequency amplifier signal processing. Just my humble opinion, but I could be wrong!
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I use mine just to transfer to MP3's so the quilty is dropped, and this on does work fine for that but.... If you really want quilty the AT-LP120-USB or Pro-Ject Debut Carbon is a better sounding for the low cost Here is a good artical on turntables http://www.crutchfield.com/S-n9AFgf2O75T/learn/learningcenter/home/audio/turntables.htmlGood lock
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I think so, but if you are making copies of classical music, or something that requires exceptional sound quality, you may not like the results. I made copies of tapes to enter into my ipod and the sound quality if okay
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I also just want to play my vinyl records, can I plug it into my receiver and play them.
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I you have no transfer plans then do not waste your $ on a useless USB port. Invest in an old school basic turntable that delivers fidelity with low noise and an affordable cartridge.
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No, it's not--you can digitize your vinyl for use on your devices (basically converting the music on your records into mp3s), or just play your vinyl on old school with the audio coming through the built-in speakers. What would make it better is if it had Blue Tooth (so it could be played through external wireless speakers). But being able to capture songs from vinyl and turn them into mp3s for your devices is still pretty cool--that and the built-in speakers were all I was looking for. Hopefully this helps!
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Sorry, I don't use the download aspect, but all I do is create wav file (lossless) from cd rip from windows media player from my cds onto the hardrive and then transfer the files to the Sony player and the sounds would just simply be "Awesome"...
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Plays CD's well, higher S/N ratio than most of the other digital sources :P
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It depends on the quality of your CD player. An external DAC may improve the sound quality over that of the DAC built into your CD player. The CD player should have some type of "digital out" which bypasses your CD's DAC and sends it to the external DAC.
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Should be ok. I have recorded vinyl to PC. Most important is the audio software capabilities
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"Most music" is still on CD. You can rip to any format you want--and OGG sounds better, and of course is completely free. There are dozens of other manufacturers who support OGG. Why wouldn't I just look there instead of being coerced into ripping in an inferior format?
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About this comment; "CD's sound decent but near as good as a system meant to play them"...is there a device I might purchase to play CDs on this system so that they sound great...not just decent?
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the cd sound is less than perfect. its ok. If you are used to quality sound I would not use this for cds. It is passable for cd use if not
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Not anymore... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD#PlayStation_3_and_SACD_playback
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My machine is digital/analog and the discs are cd-rw music/audio. Does not specify if they are digital.
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Unfortunately I have never used this feature, but I can offer some advice: rip the music into a 24-bit codec with the highest sample rate you can. (i.e, not MP3)
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I have never tried that with the vinyl cd-r. I assume it would work just the same as any other cd.
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My request is similar. Not a lot of videos, mostly music composes my collection. Does a classic have good sound quality?