In article , charles
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In article , Wolfgang Schwanke
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You digitised your entire record collection? IMO it's not economical
to digitise vinyl in DIY as long as the same albums are available on
CD commercially. You'll spend 2 hours minimum recording, post
processing and burning the tracks of a single album, and that is not
counting the time for scanning the artwork. Unless you value or own
free time very low, just buying the same album on CD is much more
cost effective.

It might be more cost effective to buy CDs, but doing it yourself
doesn't involve financial outlay. I have 300+ LPs in the loft.

In addition, modern CDs may well have been "remastered". Alas, for many
rock/pop/etc forms of 'popular' music that can mean the dynamics have been
compressed and the overall sound mucked about.

Well produced CDs can sound superb. I can cite here two current favourites.

The 'Decca Sound' 50 CD box

The 'William Steinberg" 20CD box (EMI)

These have some lovely CD versions of old recordings that were originally
released on LP. For anyone who likes 'classical' music and wants enjoyable
performances with excellent stereo images, I'd recommend both the above.

But other kinds of music can be fouled up, and may not sound the same as an
old LP in good condition because the people doing the 'remastering'
couldn't resist tampering.

Slainte,

Jim

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