Re: [ARSCLIST] Lossy compression losing quality (was Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio and the Milllennials . . .)

[John Ross <johnross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It looks like there are several phono-to-USB preamps that might be 
good enough for serious transfer work:

Pro-Ject Phono Box II USB  (www.project-audio.com/min.php?prod=phonoboxusb)
ART USB Phono Plus 
v2   (www.artproaudio.com/products.asp?type90&cat=13&id=128)

And possibly the Bellari VP530, which is listed on the B&H web site 
as special order, but not on Bellari's own site.

In addition, the Stanton T90 USB turntable (street price around $300) 
looks like a significant step up from the Ion, Numark and 
Audio-Technica versions.

John Ross

At  12/15/2007 02:10 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
> Perhaps more useful -- and I've been surprised no one has done it, 
> would be an external box with an intergrated RIAA preamp, A-D 
> converter and USB interface. The only reason I can think that this 
> hasn't been done is that the market for "putting my LPs into my 
> iPod" is too limited to justify a Chinese factory production run.