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[NYT] The Turntables That Transform Vinyl More

[NYT] The Turntables That Transform Vinyl

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  • Dish soap and warm water.

    Also, if you're doing a one-off recording, try pouring water on the lp just before you begin to play it, so that there's a layer of water all over the grooves. The water stays in place on 33-1/3 disks (don't bother with those old 78rpm shellacs :-).

    And no, the layer of water will not reduce the high-end frequency response - water, being incompressible, will actually improve it.

    (hey, its no weirder than putting hard drives in the fridge overnight to recover data)

  • Weren't even that expensive. Except, I'm too young to actually still have LPs. My dad still has some, I'll inherit them someday, I think ;-)

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ncc74656 ( 45571 ) *

      Except, I'm too young to actually still have LPs

      Damn kids...get off my lawn! :-)

      The handful of records I had as a kid (nothing special, really) disappeared somewhere. I picked up a turntable a few years ago (a fully-automatic Marantz with linear tracking for just $50...add another $20 for a new cartridge and it worked like new again). The small record collection I've built up again is mostly early-'80s stuff...stuff that was on the radio before we headed overseas in '84.

      There's still empty space n

  • Vinyl (Score:2)

    by Tet ( 2721 )
    Hmmm. Interesting. I have a huge amount of vinyl that's just sitting around waiting for me to digitize. I haven't listened to any of it for probably 10 years, but there's some stuff that I just don't have (and can't readily get) on CD, so I'd really like to preserve it. It's one of those things that's been on my todo list for ages, but I just haven't got around to it. Perhaps a simple solution like this will give me the impetus I need to actually do something about it...

    I have my reservations about sound

  • It will last twenty times longer than the digital stuff. So you can redigitize after your CDs rot. "USB" to play records on your PC? Forget it. The Audio-Technica model is the only one to have it together in that department. Its software might not work with a Mac, but I'll betcha the Mac's line input is the same as everybody else's. When did they stop putting a line-in on laptops? I wonder if you could use the mic-in without the preamp.

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