Chris Curnow wrote:
Paul Lee wrote:
Unless you are keeping them for collector's value, then there are options available, such as this:
Save yourself the $52. Polderbits do a really good free converter. http://www.polderbits.com All mine are very nearly done. Soon there'll be no equipment available to play the originals so it's well worth the effort.
Actually ... there's no shortage of turntables available brand new. You won't find them in your typical discount audio store, true. But that's partly because they're the provenance of audiophiles, and priced higher than Joe Average Deaf Ears (AKA typical person who has grown up with Walkman/iPod headphones stuck in their ears!) is willing to pay. I think there will always be companies making turntables, because there are millions and millions of great vinyl recordings that will never be put on CD in their complete form, if they're even put on CD at all. Especially in the world of classical music, where great performances are treasured much more than today's myth that "newest is best" ... I think the most important class of audio recording to convert to digital format is tape recordings. Vinyl recordings easily outlast tape recordings - the media is durable, playing it does a lot less damage than a tape suffers, and the magnetic signal on a tape fades over time. I saw a piece of hardware in a catalog designed to convert tape recordings, convenient, although I'd rather digitize the output of a real tape deck. Anyway, this brings to mind fractal music. Many years back, I checked out a DOS program called (IIRC) "Well-Tempered Fractal". I was never able to find any programs that could read its output. So what's happening with fractal music now? -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community