free mp3 sites for classical ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:21:52AM -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> 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.

Creative Labs current top card has a turntable input, and supposedly
software to try and elliminate scratches and such (in windows only of
course).  Not sure what the support for the new cards is like under
linux at this time.

Len Sorensen
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