Whats the best way to digitise your vinyl?

[RDR]

but technics were also never made to be for hi fi.

They were, the first 1200's were sold without tone arms in the hi-fi specialist magazines as users often prefered to add their own tone arms.

The most important issue with recording vinyl is the LEVEL. Recording through a DJ mixer is also a bad thing IMO, mixers are meant to colour the sound and when you play back your recorded mixes back through the same DJ mixer you used to record them then its being given double colour.

The problem with the needles as i see it is that the depth of the cut on modern dance music records is pretty deep and as such the audiophile needles in the hi-fi scene were not designed in mind with that level of vibration. On the other hand DJ needles are not really designed to bring back high levels of quality (they're pretty close though). Of course all this is much of a muchness Decent Q DJ needles should be fine to record your music, but its the signal path thats the killer.

Of course ya stuck between a rock and a hard place in terms of RCA pre-amps. DJ mixers are the best place to find em but some are of course better than others. I find the pioneer mixers quite transparent but prefer the sound of my vestax.. warmer fuller.

Anyway....[/RAMBLE]

[djshiva]

They were, the first 1200's were sold without tone arms in the hi-fi specialist magazines as users often prefered to add their own tone arms.

huh. i had read that the technics 1200 wasn't the best for audiophile quality because of the noise from the (required for djing) very powerful platter/torque?

i won't proclaim myself a great expert on it, but was repeating what i had read before.

and yeah, dj mixers bad. i run my table through a soundboard with built in RIAA eq for vinyl ripping. lil soundcraft compact 4. does the trick.

[RDR]

huh. i had read that the technics 1200 wasn't the best for audiophile quality because of the noise from the (required for djing) very powerful platter/torque?

You are right, although the deck WAS sold as a hi-Fi seperate it didnt last very long in that market for the reasons you outlined above, hence why the very best Hi-Fi decks are belt drive.

[Barely Human]

Gota love wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technics_SL-1200

[Athar]

Agreed with barry and most comments here,
Maybe save your tunes as WAV format,
propably you spend more your hard disk space but **** mp3 m8