>>I actually take LPs and put them on CDR myself to get the full sound
As an example, here’s a YouTube vid I did taking the video from the Hanna Barbera series Cattanooga Cats (late 60s) which had some really good music...and syncing the original
song from the original vinyl album—now, I don’t have that album but someone did and posted the album online and it sounds very nice, even when transferred to .mp3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRGLf6BP-Zk
As someone noted:
“Amazing! The Cats sound so crystal clear. It sounds like the song was recorded last week. Thank you for the fine job.”
I don’t have a turntable anymore, but a friend does and
recently I picked up 2 old LPs for free, one by Peter Nero and one by Roger Williams, as I knew a friend in California who enjoyed that type of music. I had a friend locally who does have a turntable convert them to a CD-R and I mailed my friend who’s
the Nero/Williams fan the CDs—and after a very quick listen the fidelity sounded pretty good for 2 records which I literally picked up at a “swap shack” at a landfill on
Cape Cod!
I have a collection of LPs going back fifty years. My Dad had taught me to handle an LP only by the edge or the spindle hole, and to `flex’ the album cover when replacing the disk. Result, LPs last forever. Replace the stylus, get the best turntable (for me, the Garrard 1A), and vacuum tube amplifiers are best. Have you priced Fisher v.t. amps on eBay lately? Lots more than Fisher solid state.
But I discovered something else about LPs: playing those of artists whom I don’t like, backwards. Ten bucks on eBay got me fifteen Frank Sinatra LPs to make Ol’ Not So Hotra punch out anyone in Heaven who gets near him whenever I turn the Greatest Voice Ever into chipmunk gibberish.
Hey Frankie! You’re not in Vegas anymore.
;^)