[KarlInOhio]

I converted about 50 albums to digital before actually sitting down and listening to the CDs for an evening. I found that although the vinyl sounded normal to me when using a phonograph, they were somehow harsh and not pleasant when played the digital transfers.

Did your equipment apply the RIAA equalization? LPs are recorded with weak bass and strong treble. Amplifiers are supposed to reverse this on their LP input (but newer ones may not have that anymore). If you just ran the LP to the computer, you probably didn't correct for this unless your software was expecting input from vinyl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization

[dangerdoc]

No, Phono to amp then RCA to computer. It’s sounds like the LP when you listen for awhile but becomes tiring after awhile, it’s hard to explain.