Is there a CD Recorder-player/turntable/dual cassette deck..

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On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:48:47 -0600, Rebecca Webb <webbrl@mrs.umn.edu> wrote:
>As the turntable/CD Player/dual cassette deck stereo dies (worthless Aiwa
>hunk of junk, the cassette decks died within months..) I find myself
>wishing there were a device that combines these elements with a CD
>Recorder. Pop your vinyl on the turntable, press a button, and voila! A
>CD! As easy as making tapes from your albums!

>Does such a thing even exist? In the works?
No. There never has and there never will. There's no intersection
between vinyl and CDR.

Buy a turntable; buy a receiver with a phono imput or also buy a phono
preamp; buy a cd recorder. Duct tape them together.

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In article <cpqan8$9jh$1@news3.bu.edu> venom@csa2.bu.edu writes:

> : As the turntable/CD Player/dual cassette deck stereo dies (worthless Aiwa
> : hunk of junk, the cassette decks died within months..) I find myself
> : wishing there were a device that combines these elements with a CD
>
> There exists at least one:
> http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/6908/

Where's the turntable?

> : Recorder. Pop your vinyl on the turntable, press a button, and voila! A
> : CD! As easy as making tapes from your albums!
>
> http://www.kabusa.com/frameset.htm?index.htm


Where's the turntable? Where's the CD recorder? What question do you
think you're answering with these useless links?

To answer the original poster, nobody makes a single unit that does
what you want. There are turntalbes, there are cassete players, there
are cassette + CD players (which won't do you much good) and there are
CD recorders. Plenty of components that you can put together to get
where you want to be, but nobody has integrated such a system into a
single box.

I might add that it can be a pain to make a good CD of a vinyl record,
or more accurately, a CD that's comparable to a commercial CD. The
short explanation for this is the lack of "CD Mastering" when you
simply copy a record on to a CD. It'll play OK, but there will be one
problem you'll notice immediately - the CD isn't as loud as the rest
of your CDs. Another problem will be with the placement of the track
index markers. Most CD recorders have the capability to automatically
create a new track when there's silence in the band between cuts on
the record, but if there's surface noise, it might get confused and
write some extraneous tracks, or if the pause is too short, might miss
one.

It's relatively easy to make a CD that's essentially the equivalent of
a cassette, with no indexing, but people have come to expect that if
it looks like a CD, they'll have the ability to play individual
tracks. If you want this, it will take some effort.


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"Rebecca Webb" <webbrl@mrs.umn.edu> wrote in message
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> As the turntable/CD Player/dual cassette deck stereo dies (worthless
> Aiwa hunk of junk, the cassette decks died within months..) I find
> myself wishing there were a device that combines these elements with
> a CD Recorder. Pop your vinyl on the turntable, press a button, and
> voila! A CD! As easy as making tapes from your albums!

Given the vanishing market share for vinyl and vinyl playback equipment, I
doubt you'll ever see such a thing at a popular price.

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In article <5qydnZslWJJ7GFzcRVn-sQ@comcast.com>,
Arny Krueger <arnyk@hotpop.com> wrote:
>"Rebecca Webb" <webbrl@mrs.umn.edu> wrote in message
>news:webbrl-1512041448470001@educ-dyn6.mrs.umn.edu
>
>> As the turntable/CD Player/dual cassette deck stereo dies (worthless
>> Aiwa hunk of junk, the cassette decks died within months..) I find
>> myself wishing there were a device that combines these elements with
>> a CD Recorder. Pop your vinyl on the turntable, press a button, and
>> voila! A CD! As easy as making tapes from your albums!
>
>Given the vanishing market share for vinyl and vinyl playback equipment, I
>doubt you'll ever see such a thing at a popular price.

Actually, it's increasing right now. I don't know how long that increase
will remain, but it's weird. Not that I am complaining at all.
--scott
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"Rebecca Webb" <webbrl@mrs.umn.edu> wrote in message
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> As the turntable/CD Player/dual cassette deck stereo dies (worthless Aiwa
> hunk of junk, the cassette decks died within months..) I find myself
> wishing there were a device that combines these elements with a CD
> Recorder.

The first junky one you tried wasn't enough aggravation for you - you want
to line up to do it again?

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"jeffc" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> "Rebecca Webb" <webbrl@mrs.umn.edu> wrote in message
> news:webbrl-1512041448470001@educ-dyn6.mrs.umn.edu...
>> As the turntable/CD Player/dual cassette deck stereo dies (worthless
>> Aiwa hunk of junk, the cassette decks died within months..) I find
>> myself wishing there were a device that combines these elements with
>> a CD Recorder.
>
> The first junky one you tried wasn't enough aggravation for you - you
> want to line up to do it again?

Good point!

Buying quality within reason is generally a good strategy.

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"Scott Dorsey" <kludge@panix.com> wrote in message
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> Arny Krueger <arnyk@hotpop.com> wrote:
>> "Scott Dorsey" <kludge@panix.com> wrote in message
>>>>
>>>> Given the vanishing market share for vinyl and vinyl playback
>>>> equipment, I doubt you'll ever see such a thing at a popular price.
>>>
>>> Actually, it's increasing right now.
>>
>> http://www.riaa.com/news/marketing [...] rofile.pdf
>>
>> shows that LP sales are falling and the lowest they've been in 10
>> years.
>>
>> http://www.riaa.com/news/newslette [...] rStats.pdf
>>
>> Shows flat LP volumes, but declining dollar amounts at mid-year,
>> suggesting significant sales at clearance.
>
> Weird. It would be really interesting to see that split between the
> DJ and audiophile markets. Because, in fact, there really are two
> totally different LP markets that don't seem to intersect at all.

I agree.

Looking at hardware sales, it seems like the DJ market is far larger.


> I am seeing a real boom in LP production right now. More so than
> just can be accounted for by the Christmas season. But then again,
> I'm not doing any DJ pressings.

Great!

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"Leonid Makarovsky" <venom@csa2.bu.edu> wrote in message
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> In rec.audio.pro Mike Rivers <mrivers@d-and-d.com> wrote:
>>> There exists at least one:
>>> http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/6908/
>
>> Where's the turntable?
>
>>>> Recorder. Pop your vinyl on the turntable, press a button, and
>>>> voila! A CD! As easy as making tapes from your albums!
>>>
>>> http://www.kabusa.com/frameset.htm?index.htm
>
>
>> Where's the turntable? Where's the CD recorder? What question do you
>> think you're answering with these useless links?
>
> There's no all in one solution. But these are the closest things she
> can get to what she want, ok?
>
> The USB tape deck is probably the easiest way to x-fer tapes to CDRs
> using computer.

Last one I saw mentioned here had no Dolby support.

> The second link introduces a turntable that can be plugged directly
> to the computer soundcard without the need to pre-amp.

> All in one? Forget such a thing. Do it yourself.

Agreed.

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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:36:37 -0500, "Arny Krueger" <arnyk@hotpop.com>
wrote:

>
>http://www.riaa.com/news/marketingdata/pdf/2003consumerprofile.pdf
>
>shows that LP sales are falling and the lowest they've been in 10 years.

Once again, you've got it wrong.

So what's new?