"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , David Looser
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"Geoff Mackenzie" wrote

Thanks, Jim, you've summed it up. I keep my PC for word processing,
email, pictures for eBay and occasionally catching up with Radio 7.
My audio stuff is quite separate, and I'd prefer it to remain so. I
asked for comments on the Brennan in this NG a while back, and all the
replies pointed me towards a PC solution.

There's no guarantee a Brennan won't fail, and thus cause you to loose
your entire record collection. Unless of course you've kept the CDs/LPs,
a solution which works just as well with a PC-based playback system.

It occurs to me to mention the 'Olive' set of models of devices. I know no
more about them than I do the Brennen, so can't say if they are
better/worse/etc. But they may be preferrable to the Brennan.

Slainte,

Jim

At first glance the Olive seems very expensive and does a lot of things I
don't need. The Brennan would be ideal if it were possible to back up, and
also copy the contents to another machine - ideal for those post-divorce
arguments about who owned which CDs/LPs! Must contact Brennan tech support
(I assume they have one) and find out if either is possible.

I do intend to keep all the originals, apart from a few odd LPs which
should sell rather well on eBay, but was thinking more of the considerable
time and effort it's going to take to transcribe a pretty extensive
collection.

Cheers,

Geoff