[buddhashenglong]

I am looking for an excellent\affordable stylus to transfer vinyl
to digital using a numark TTX spdif coax into an M-audio firewire solo with audacity, cooledit or soundforge. Accuracy is my goal. I don't know much about needles outside of club\radio mixing,(shure m 447, ortofon , stanton al 500) . Any help is much appreciated as real time vinyl transfer is something I don't want to repeat. Too many records and if I don't start soon I'll never get there. Thanks.

 

[luvdunhill]

I know someone who undertook a similar project and used two cartridges:

a Benz ACE and a Benz ACE mono

Not my cup-of-tea in terms of sonics, but the transfers turned out amazing!

 

[LFF]

You don't need to have an expensive needle to get a great transfer. A good vinyl rip 1/3 equipment, 1/3 software and 1/3 knowing what to do. I'd say at least go for Audio Technica MLa440 or Shure M97XE. I have heard transfers using both and they all sounded fantastic. Remember though, it's only 1/3 of the solution.

 

[buddhashenglong]

Thanks, I'll check out these suggestions. Any other advice on the subject of vinyl transfer would be great.

 

[narticus]

I can't say I'm a pro or anything, but Adobe Audition seems like a good program for ripping vinyl and reducing pops/clicks (very easily).

 

[Voltron]

There is more info than you can absorb on how to do needledrops properly on the Steve Hoffman forums. Check out this link that links to more links:

Hoffman needledrop links

 

[episiarch]

I haven't tried vinyl-to-digital transfer yet, but I found the reading at Tracertek.com pretty compelling, and I plan to try their approach (probably later this summer).

 

[lini]

bsl: Apparently you've got a dj table with comparatively short tonearm. Investing in a good hifi cartridge with elliptical or more complicated needle type like the Benz, Shure and AT models mentioned above would be rather pointless for such a table. I'd rather recommend a cartridge with spherical/conical needle that is designed for tables like yours, e.g. the Shure Whitelabel.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[buddhashenglong]

The TTX comes with a straight tone arm and a 's' curved one. If one is longer what difference does it make to the sound? Recording from this table's digital output will hopefully increase the sq of my transfers. Now I'll checkout some of these links and by the time I figure it out I can afford one of these cartridges.

 

[lini]

bsl: If you picture the geometry of a conventional tonearm in your mind (or on a piece of paper), you can imagine that unlike with a linear tracking tonearm the needle cannot be ideally aligned with the tangent of the groove all the time - instead it will be slightly misaligned most of the time. And you will also see that the shorter the arm, the bigger the mistracking angles get relative to the tangent of the groove. Now, with a conical/spherical needle, this isn't that much of a problem, 'cause the profile of the needle is always the same no matter of its position in the groove. Whereas the more profiled elliptical and even more advanced (hyperelliptical, Shibata, Line Contact, Micro Line, Fine Line, Micro Ridge, Gyger, van den Hul...) needle types naturally react more critical the less parallel they sit in the groove. In bad cases, this will even ruin your records over time. So for a table with short arm I'd recommend to best stick with conical/spherical needles or at least only use comparatively blunt ellipticals.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[buddhashenglong]

That's great to know and a lot to consider.

 

[immtbiker]

Quote:

Originally Posted by buddhashenglong /img/forum/go_quote.gif That's great to know and a lot to consider.

Just like your username

 

[buddhashenglong]

My previous post was an unintended understatement, what a can of worms. People will be debating some of this stuff until doomsday, maybe after.
I will definitely do some trial and error of my own, and I'll let y'all know how it goes. Thanks for the tips.

 

[buddhashenglong]

buddhashenglong is my dj name, pronounced shenron.