Comments on Profile Post by Changeling

I’m sure others with more experience will have better recommendations, but this came to mind

http://www.schiit.com/products/jil

How much are you willing to spend? I picked up my Tascam DA-3000 refurbished for $599. It brings back that ol' school finger hovering over the record button feeling from the 80's.

@Melvillian @JK47 The thing is though; I don’t have a turntable...
I’m only interested in getting the music to my NAS. There’s some artists I like who’s insisting on releasing some of their music on vinyl only. For some I’ve reached out to the labels and gotten .wav’s sent to me, but I still have a bunch of vinyls that I wish to hear :-D

I guess I could use my ADI-2 Pro but it would still require me to pick up a turntable

Maybe someone in the community can help you convert them to digital. Not sure if there are professional services that do that

You’d probably want a good turntable to get a good transfer and that may be cost prohibitive for you

@Melvillian Yep, I think I’ve found a local service. It’s like €14 per record but will probably do a testrun and see how the quality holds up.

That’s great. Hope it works out

Well, you need a proper interface, ADC as well as DAC and... Oh my god you've got an ADI-2 Pro! It's almost criminal not to use that for digitising your LPs!

But... no deck. Hmmm... Borrow one? Short term investment?

The biggest thing, though, is not the deck and the ADC but the hours and hours of work that it takes unless your records are miracle-clean. It is a real labour of love.

You'll bever get rid of all the vinyl noise unless you are very highly skilled. But that's ok! You brain has got used to it being there. I have nice, clean digital copies of stuff where my brain misses those noises!

But what turntable would be sufficient to do a decent job?

Maybe you want to commision ChrisF to do some vinyl rips. He is very good at it, and is in the Audio mixing/mastering industry I believe (specializes in Salsa music).

Murfie.com has 1-year memberships for $49 if you join be the end of the year and part of the membership includes them taking your vinyl and digitizing it. May be worth looking into even with the overseas shipping if the other guys are charging that much.

What Turntable?

Well, you are going to be listening to the results for ever more, so, one that you would want to listen to anyway. I'd argue (many would disagree) that your digitised results (sans noise you manage to get rid of) can and should sound like the source turntable/pre-amp.

But, whether you agree with that or not, you are freezing that reproduction in your FLAC files. So you are going to have to want to listen to it :)