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06-11-2008, 12:30 AM
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Although I am a bass player, I am not an audiophile (I would love to be). I am getting a late 70s Pioneer silver faced receiver plus the matched speakers from a friend. I would love to buy a USB turntable. I know this is meager, but I need something affordable, definitely not over $200. What is my best option? I am sure there are some audiophiles here on the bass forum!
Oh yeah, should there be a way to plug in my iPod on something of this vintage? Any help is much appreciated!
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06-11-2008, 04:37 AM
|  | On the TB leaderboard for low talent/gear ratios! | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: NJ | | | I recently wondered about the USB turntables because I still have some albums that have never come out on CD. I haven't taken a serious look at them,yet, though.
I have a cable with a 1/8" stereo plug on one end that goes into my iPod's headphone jack and the other end is a pair of RCA plugs that go into one of the aux inputs in my receiver. It does the job just fine.
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06-11-2008, 06:26 AM
| | Pat's the best! | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Northern Virginia, USA | | | Why do you want a USB turntable? You don't need USB to connect to that receiver. The only reason you would want USB would be to hook your turntable to a computer. |
06-11-2008, 06:39 AM
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Originally Posted by whitespike  Although I am a bass player, I am not an audiophile (I would love to be). I am getting a late 70s Pioneer silver faced receiver plus the matched speakers from a friend. I would love to buy a USB turntable. I know this is meager, but I need something affordable, definitely not over $200. What is my best option? I am sure there are some audiophiles here on the bass forum!
Oh yeah, should there be a way to plug in my iPod on something of this vintage? Any help is much appreciated! | I got a flyer from Guitar Center yesterday, They have one on sale for $199. Sounds like you to me. |
06-11-2008, 07:13 AM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | I have one, and it's a cool thing to have. It gives you the ability to turn your out of print vinyl into mp3's.
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06-11-2008, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Philbiker Why do you want a USB turntable? You don't need USB to connect to that receiver. The only reason you would want USB would be to hook your turntable to a computer. |
That's precisdely why I was interested in one. It wasn't to listen to the LPs over and over again. I wanted to play them exactly ONE more time so I could put the WAV files on my PC and then create a CD to use from now on.
For what it's worth, most of my vinyl LPs have been played exactly ONCE. Back in the pre-CD days I'd play my albums one time to record them onto cassette and would then listen to the cassette so my vinyl stayed pristine. I always had decent audio gear so the cassettes I made were always vastly superior to the cassette version of an album. Then if the cassette was lost or damaged, I could always go back to an almost-new piece of vinyl to re-record the damaged cassette.
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06-11-2008, 09:37 AM
| | | | On a flight recently i saw one in the skymall magazine haha... it had a spot to dock your ipod on the 300$ model, the 200$ model didn't. That was the only diff I saw b/t them. |
06-11-2008, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Philbiker Why do you want a USB turntable? You don't need USB to connect to that receiver. The only reason you would want USB would be to hook your turntable to a computer. | Haha! I know! I want to put my records on my iPod without having to rebuy the albums on CD or iTunes. Plus if I do this, I can play along with the songs on my records by putting my iPod through my Eden WT400.
I was basically wonder which to buy. In fact that Guitar Center advert is what started me thinking...and the price is good. But I want to know if it's a good sounding table first.
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