How much Setup is required? All, I want to do is play vinyl.
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Well, you have to plug it into a 110v outlet and attach speakers, and place a record on it. Pretty complicated. Oh yeah, you have to place the tome arm on the record.
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i actually use another rca line input and use the pre amp from my turntable with an in line booster (between turntable and 5000) and it works much better than the phono input on the 5000. i was getting a humming noise using phono input. your setup might be different though. either way my vinyl sounds awesome now!
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Do a search for a setup manual and you will find it very easily. Setup should take about 30 minutes.
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No your built in sound will be fine. The amp and software will clean everything up. Getting pops and clicks out of vinyl is a little tricky as it can make the recording sound muddy. Otherwise the amp worked great for me.
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you will need an amp/receiver, make sure that the model you elect will accommodate a turntable or you will need a phono-preamp as well.
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Yes, it comes with software for you to convert your vinyl records to a digital recording. Installation and use are both fairly easy. It also plays like a "regular" record player.
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George, if you use seratodj it's as simple as connect it via usb and start playing
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I you have no transfer plans then do not waste your $ on a useless USB port. Invest in an old school basic turntable that delivers fidelity with low noise and an affordable cartridge.
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Sorry can't help you for I have never done that. This portable sound card by Creative works great when you cannot install a internal sound card. I have talked to other people that have good equipment. They have tried to transfer vinyl to CD and it does not sound good at all. (ie. scratchy, hollow sounding ect. ect. Sorry I can't help more. Have a nice Thanksgiving.
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First of all, you do need a amp or receiver, and make sure that the equipment has a turntable jack for it, or you can't use it. Second, you do need a good speakers system. And good speakers wires too.
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Hi Ann, you need an amplifier. You can't directly connect this on a turntable. -Vincent
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My vinyl to pc capture was pre hdmi. I used rca to pc audio input. Software must have vinyl clean up feature.outcome is not high quality, but provided a clean retro sound on cd for a friend who's father recorded the album for her. sorry, HDMI audio in from rca...haven't tried. Maybe Audicity could help
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you don't, only way to find out is to try it out. make sure the person has a return or guarantee policy, if it works according to the instructions (which you should be able to figure out within a week) you're good. bought mine new, very good machine for home playing & recording. i use it to record vinyl dj mixes from my turntables. blank cd's for recording DO have to be MUSIC cd's & say so on the packaging. good luck...
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Of course it comes with software. How else would it work? It connects to your computer's iTunes application via a USB connection. Then you can burn your vinyl record to CD, if you wish. Which is what it's for. I suppose you could listen to the vinyl record through your computer's speakers, also. I don't know if there are stereos with USB connections, but there must be. I've never looked into it.
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You'll definitely need an RIAA-type of preamp (Amazon has a few economical models). The signal coming out of a turntable needs to be EQ'd and boosted to work properly. No real way around it. :-)
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I set my system up not to create a digital server simply because while I love music, I do so many other things that I simply want to spin my vinyl collection and enjoy the sound. I don't want at this point to bother with transferring from one medium to another but I would venture to speculate that if your vinyl is in pretty good shape you will be surprised how good the rips will sound with this very inexpensive device. It was developed for people to pipe vinyl to a computer sound card so the processing that occurs seems to take bad signal out and leave behind good sonority. How exactly the circuitry works isn't completely swear because ya gotta remember that this device takes in analogue does something to that signal and puts out a cleaner analogue signal. Whether it's got two simple DACs inside or just analogue filters I really don't know. If you are a fanatic, which is your call, then a device known to produce and output a digital signal into one of the available digital formats might be more up your alley. That device is gonna be pricey. All I can say is that when I spin vinyl that I bought in college over forty years ago and pipe it to my power amp and my big vandersteins, If I close my eyes I can't be sure if it's live or memorex!!!
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Small home parties or home theater system. I suggest the Peavey PR15 or the Thump TH15A. Well worth the money for a DJ system.