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[leorcc]

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There are now also turntables with USB, so you can convert them to mp3 in one go, and edit afterwards.

[lex]

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For example:
http://www.audioaffair.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=651&gclid=CITOp4z r9Y4CFQ0eEgodPXxcEAhttp://www.audioaffair.co.uk/index.p...gclid=CITOp4zr 9Y4CFQ0eEgodPXxcEA
Not ultra cheap, but certainly the cheapest decent USB deck on the market. The ones for £100 or so are relatively low quality plastic jobs and sound quality will not be good.

[anukhet]

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I hate mp3! Unfortunately I can tell the difference - even at a rate of 320 kbit/s :sad:

[stu]

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Your just snobby! LMAO!!!

Mr Stu

[anukhet]

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It just cannot do sub-bass thats the problem

[lex]

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Im afraid I dont take MP3 and the like particularly seriously, although its useful for background music or in portables. Always sounds a bit fluffy and diffuse, as if there was something wrong with my ears. Low bass does seem to lack power and definition. CDs sound pretty good these days, but I still think a good vinyl record on a decent turntable is better. Unfortunately getting the music out of the groove involves proper engineering, which can never be done really cheaply.

Stu, youre an old fogey with your MP3s. The kids are into vinyl these days!

[leorcc]

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I had 2 Technics SL-1200 MKII turntables back then, but they cost an arm and a leg (1180 guilders, about 500 euros a piece). They will last a lifetime though, apart from changing needles now and again they never let me down.

So a turntable like that is expensive short term, but its return of investment is great.

As far as MP3s go, yes you miss some dynamics as opposed to vinyl or CD, however for the vast majority of its applications (bars/resaurants, mobile player, ringtones) mp3 is a fine solution. OGG/Vorbis would be even better but i dont ever see that becoming a standard. It has something you might like Karoline, variable bitrates. When the sound quality needs to be higher the bitrate goes up automatically, and down on parts where it is not needs (like silence for instance). High compression yet still high quality.

[anukhet]

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Another thing wrong with mp3 - Ive only got a CD player in the car Plus the problem with music I like is that there are no silent bits

Back to getting the music out of the groove I never use filters and getting the blips out is a matter of taking time and removing minicule groups of samples of the offending displayed spike. The track I mentioned before was V4 Visions Jungle Bizznizz EP - a white label pressing made so hot that the vinyl must have almost boiled(!!!) hence it was full of dents and bubbles, keeping the damn stylus on it was hard enough and it took me all day to get it almost nearly right - Im quite proud of that clean-up job and it still sounds like vinyl.