Turntable, radio and speakers: £25 (no end date)

UniqueEarthling

Originally Posted by rizla01
Actually there is one around that plugs into 'puter via USB port and allows copying of LPs to CD.

That's what I'm looking for.

This one might be of interest to you:

http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=1401&aff=1272

Use the £5 voucher, that is always doing the rounds for Firefox, and go through one of the referal sites (quidco, etc) and you might even get the cost down further.

56cheffy

rizla01 wrote:

Yeah. £130.00 thats the problem.

Surely its possible to plug any old turntable into the sound card and record from there?

Try https://www.iwantoneofthose.com

I found a link on another 'money saving' site...don't know if I'm allowed to say which it was...and with discounts you can get one down to £90 inc P+P with Quidco...

Go through the quidco link, when the IWOOT window opens simply add /gradcard to the end of https://www.iwantoneofthose.com and press enter.

That should enable Quidco and the 15% Discount. 25% in total!

Hope this makes sense!

gromituk

Odd_Fellow wrote:

No, its not. The signal output from a cartridge is tiny. Amplifiers have a special circuit for PHONO connections.

Only on expensive turntables. Anything else has a ceramic cartridge which has a high level output. This may be fine to feed straight into a sound card - I say may, because the signal is also at high impedance, so if the input impedance of the card is low, it will attenuate the signal.

Whatever happens, you won't blow up a sound card or a turntable trying them together.

That's another point, most soundcards have just line-in via a 3.5mm stereo jack plug. A turntable has phono collectors.

Line-in and Phono signals are totally different beasts.

If you're talking about signals here, then see my point above. If you're talking about connectors, the type says nothing about the signals that they carry. Phono to jack adaptors are ten a penny, and are supplied with a lot of gizmos that may need to interface to either form of connector.

sprouter

If you've already got a turntable, a cheaper option is to use an iMic (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Griffin-Technology-iMic-Audio-Interface/dp/B00006BALQ). I've used one of these together with a Vestax Handytrax (http://www.htfr.com/more-info/MR92485) and free Audacity software (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) to convert a huge stack of 12's/LP's.