free mp3 sites for classical ?

[William Park]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:21:52AM -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> William Park wrote:
> >Beethoven is my favourite, but all my collections are LPs.  Does
> >anyone here know free site for classical mp3's ?
> >
> >PS. Yes, yes, I should get CDs.  But, my turnable still works.
> >
> 
> Beethoven > Turntable > Preamp > Soundcard > audacity > lame...
> 
> You can get a good enough preamp for less than $40 from lots of
> places, even a cheap Tandy unit works well for this purpose (what I've
> got).  That way you've got the same recording that you've grown
> accustomed to -- I have a hard time listening to anyone else's version
> of Handel's Watermusic except for Roger Norrington and the London
> Classical Players' rendition.
> 
> With your own preamp you also get the added bonus of capturing that
> well worn vinyl sound, complete with pops, hisses, and crackles. You
> can even clean the resulting file up such that major defects get
> reduced to listenable small defects. Definitely worth your time to
> encode your own IMO.

I was at one of NewTLUG meeting when Ken Brown gave a talk on this
topic.  From what I understand, to make what you hear from MP3 the same
as what you hear from LP, it is not straightforward.  I would need quite
a bit "music/audio" background to decide what needs to be done, and how
to do it.

I'm sure Audacity has all the buttons.  But, which button to press, how
hard to press, and when to press it, etc... that requires "experience"
and "aptitude".  I lack both. :-)

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