Post #54638 by tikibars on Fri, Oct 10, 2003 9:42 AM

On 2003-10-07 19:20, Primo Kimo wrote:
Just my $.02
It really depends on how serious you are about quality (and how much you are willing to spend for it).

With minimal investmest you can use consumer software and your computers sound card.

With slightly more investment: Check eBay for a used Motu (Mark of the Unicorn) Firewire interface Model 828 is great and RELATIVELY cheap (500.00 - 600.00). This will provide a professional interface between your Turntable (Technics 1200 preferred 300.00) and your firewire equipped computer (firewire card 35.00).
Use any decent (I use Steinberg Wave Lab 100.00) sound editing program, record a wave file and manually remove pops and clicks by chopping off the offending waveforms.
This 1000.00 option will allow you to record any vinyl to cd with tremendously pleasing results.

Primo - the MOTU stuff is indeed great, I use it myself (there is an older 2408 about 18 inches from where I am sitting right now), but the MOTU system is simply audio I/O, and offers no intrinsic noise / hiss / pop / crackle / TTnoise elimination. Also, you can't plug a turntable directly into it; you need a turntable preamp.