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16 May

How to transform old albums into non-analogue form - USB turntables

My grandmother's beloved past time is to look for “the best old time sound” that at her almost 80 years maybe makes her a inveterate music lover. Interestingly, she never actually appreciated modern digital audio that much. When it was the revolution of sound and all the records started being produced on CDs, my granny carried on using vinyl.

She collected many vinyl records over the years, most from her audiophile friend John, whom she named “Jocko” and others from her friends and children. Even Elvis Presley records may be found in her collection. As all the albums have been constantly utilized, the quality of sound now is lower than it should be. When I began digging through what she got left, I found Sinatra, Pat Boone and lots of more old timers.

No matter what is the difference in age, my grandmother wanted to do something that would allow her grandchildren to have an access to her music. She understood that the most suitable method to do it is to utilize some device which is able to transform songs from vinyl to the form which would be understandable for PC.

My granny decided to buy USB turntables and with assistance of it to bring us a chance to listen to her favorite records when we like. As it turned out, my grandmother found the Internet store that offers that type of equipment and ordered a turntable to try it in action.

Such a wonderful gadget as USB turntable allows to transform the sound data form the vinyl records to the digital form and store those sound files on your computer. There are many different types of these devices. She found lots of articles about such equipment and determined that the turntable that costs a great deal of money doesn't significantly differ from another one that costs not much. So, she thought that if she buys a turntable that costs approximately 500 dollars it will be enough.

It appears that my granny read much information on Stanton USB turntables online. But it wasn't a definitive choice as there were one more interesting device called Numark TT USB. My grandmother made decision that the best method to define which modification is the best and most comfortable is to have both of them to test.

I called my sister to visit our grandmother and to see how she performs some experiments with her records. My sister was surprised too, moreover, she actually decided to upload some old records to her iPod to listen to that records when she is away. Wouldn't you be proud to get a granny like mine?

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