[MPA] converting vinyl to CD

[David Crandon]

Err, I'd have to say your $ estimate is definitely on the real high side.

How about this:

Onkyo MSE-U33HB $40 (Fry's/Outpost.com)
Roxio Toast/CD Spin Doctor/Jam $80
100GB Hard Drive $100 (Costco/Sam's Club)
100 CD blanks $30 (Costco/Sam's Club)

Total $250

However, a lot of people will already have Toast and you really only
need about 1GB of drive space at the most at one time, which many people
already have, so the cost could be as low as $70.

Just another viewpoint.

David Crandon

Scott Baldwin wrote:
> 
> 100 records!
> 
> Are you sure you want to do this?  Keep in mind that you have to do
> this conversion in real time,  thus about 100 hours to record into your
> computer, figure at least an hour/CD to "clean up" the tracks and burn
> the CD.  So if you are very efficient 200 hours for this project.
> 
> You need: (assuming you have a CD burner)
> 
> an audio interface
> audio software
> hard drive
> 100 CD blanks
> 
> Yes a new hard drive. To convert 100 albums to CD quality sound you
> will need about 50 gig's of space. (CD Stereo audio is 10 MB/min)
> 
> So figure about $500.00- $600.00  to get everything you need.
> 
> Then figure what tying up your computer and 200 hours of your time is
> worth.   ($10.00/ hour? = $2000.00)
> 
> So about $2,500.00 (25.00/CD) to wind up with 100 CD's that I guarantee
> will be of lower quality than commercial CD's.
> 
> Consider replacing your collection with CD's.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Scott
> 
> On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 12:32 PM, Douglas Linacre wrote:
> 
> >
> > I want to convert about 100 vinyl records at home.
> >
> > Is there a low cost way of getting sound from my pre-amplifier into my
> > OS9 Titanium Powerbook, and then putting the sound files onto my duel
> > CPU G4 desktop and cleaning up the vinyl scratchies before I burn CDs?
> >
> > I am finding it difficult to figure out what is out there.
> >
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