BebuLamar

In the case of Mark I think it's better to use his 40 year old Denon turntable than a new turntable with RIAA pre amp. Thus he would need a photo pre amp or an amplifier with the RIAA pre amp stage.

floral43

If you are creative and you probably are get your self a USB turn table
and digitize your LP collection. using Audacity free software a complete sound studio. If you know what your doing your digitized LP's! Put on CD's
will have a sound quality beyond any commercial CD. Providing you have
a sound rig.
A great winter hobby for those dreary days ahead.
Thanks for bringing this subject into the light.
I am an Audiophile and have been for the last 55 years.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Hi,

Lived in NC for 13 years (Sunset Beach). Thanks for the feedback. I guess I would have to purchase the RIAA, USB converter and then use my Windows PC for the rest? You are a bit over my head with knowledge of the connections necessary to grab the vinyl.

Thanks,
Mark

photeach Loc: beautiful Kansas

We had some perfectly marvelous 78 albums of Broadway songs when I was a kid. Listening to them gave me hours of pleasure as a kid and a life-long love of those great songs. Thanks for that added bit of info!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

The one in my link has a USB port to do just that.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I have approximately 40,000 mp3 files on one of my externals. Mostly ripped from CD's but many downloaded from mp3million, good old Napster and Limewire. I play them via a media player connected to my stereo system, via flash drive in my car and via my PC. I'm a music aficionado - have been since I was 9. Music is no less than 50% of my pleasure in life.

I may just buy one of those turntables but I'm really interested in using my beautiful Denon for conversion to digital.

Thanks,
Mark

quote=floral43]If you are creative and you probably are get your self a USB turn table
and digitize your LP collection. using Audacity free software a complete sound studio. If you know what your doing your digitized LP's! Put on CD's
will have a sound quality beyond any commercial CD. Providing you have
a sound rig.
A great winter hobby for those dreary days ahead.
Thanks for bringing this subject into the light.
I am an Audiophile and have been for the last 55 years.[/quote]

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I forget how I did it, but years ago I copied all my records - at least those I wanted - onto CD's. I used the "audio out" probably to a CD recorder. It would be much easier with a USB port, and there are many available.

I wish I had more records. I'd get one of these.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=turntables+with+usb

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I have a Yamaha V-795 receiver. Will it allow conversion to digital with my Denon connected? I'm not too cool with the electronic tech stuff.

Thanks,
Mark

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

And we drive on parkways and park on driveways….

BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

Your parents were saints. i would have sent you to an orphanage.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

You still have not brought up the question - what does "LP" mean.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Long Play.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Long Playing!! Right??
Mark

ptcanon3ti Loc: NJ

I've enjoyed reading this thread. If I knew how to care for my vinyl albums when I was younger, I'd still have a vinyl set up to go along with my digital rig.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

Mark,

Apologies if this is a bit low level for you, but from your posts it sounds like you don't have a really good grasp of audio component signals, but you seem interested. Here is a bit of "Audio 99" (i.e., probably lower level than "Audio 101" ).

There are essentially two kinds or levels of electrical signal that go between audio system components: mic or low signal level; and line level.

The preamp (either a separate component, or a section of the circuitry inside an integrated system) ensures that all sources of audio input signal are conditioned to a line level signal amplitude for feeding the power amplifier. The volume controls and simple tone controls (as opposed to a separate graphic equalizer) are all part of the preamp. The power amplifier's role is simply to convert its input signal to a speaker driving capability. Any multi-component audio setup with separate AM/FM radio tuners, tape players, CD players, VCRs, preamps, mixers, graphic equalizers, etc, generally involves interconnections at line level using cables with RCA connectors.

Microphones provide a very low output signal and require boosting to line level through a microphone input, often found on preamps. Magnetic tape heads as found in cassette players and VCRs are also low level, and players have appropriate conditioning and boosting electronics in the box to provide line level output signals. Today's CD players have the laser reader and appropriate electronics to also provide a line level output.

Vinyl records are a bit unique because of the way the audio was recorded onto the groove (low frequencies were cut and high frequencies were boosted in amplitude ). The tonearm/cartridge signals need RIAA equalization to correctly balance the low vs high frequency sound levels during playback. A "record player" has the RIAA circuitry built in and provides line level output, but a "turntable" provides the raw signal from the cartridge directly without RIAA conditioning.

Any decent older receiver or preamp would likely have both "phono" inputs and "line" inputs (the latter often labelled "tape" ). I suspect your Yamaha V-795 is too new and does not have phono inputs (at least not identified in the specs for that receiver). The phono inputs will give you the required RIAA equalization and gain to output a line level audio signal. If your receiver does not have a "line out" then you can use the "tape out" connectors. These RCA jacks can be connected to your computer line input for recording/digitizing the audio. You can also use the headphone output as input to the computer; just watch the levels on the headphone volume control.

Good luck with it all.