I recently dug out an old SOUNDESIGN 6857 Stereo system. I guess it's from the 70's. I took it apart, checked it out and cleaned it up. About the worst was the equalizer. I just used contact cleaner and delicately worked them till they loosened up and worked. I got the turn table working with a little effort. I have hundreds of old LPs that I wanted to convert to digital files.
My computers are hooked up thru a Realistic SA-10 Amp (with 8 track player) to some fairly good speakers. The stereo sys outputs to my computer. I use a WavePad Sound Editor to record the LPs. I just make a BASE file for each side of the record. After cleaning them up and making a final BASE file; I make the separate files of each track.
I was surprised to find the old XP machine puts out excellent sound. It has a good nVIDIA sound card. I got some updated drivers from nVIDIA; but the best thing was the new version of the NVMixer.
It's amazing what you can do with "obsolete" equipment.
Good Night,
Phredtx
My computers are hooked up thru a Realistic SA-10 Amp (with 8 track player) to some fairly good speakers. The stereo sys outputs to my computer. I use a WavePad Sound Editor to record the LPs. I just make a BASE file for each side of the record. After cleaning them up and making a final BASE file; I make the separate files of each track.
I was surprised to find the old XP machine puts out excellent sound. It has a good nVIDIA sound card. I got some updated drivers from nVIDIA; but the best thing was the new version of the NVMixer.
It's amazing what you can do with "obsolete" equipment.
Good Night,
Phredtx
My Computers
System One System Two
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- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Gateway SX2803
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit Service Pack 1
- CPU
- Pentium Dual-Core E5800 @ 3.20GHz 3.20GHz
- Memory
- 6.00 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel G45/G43 Express Chipset
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell E207WFP
- Internet Speed
- 1.0 GB
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- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model Number
- eMachine T3095
- OS
- XP SP3
- CPU
- AMD Athlon Clock Rate 1191MHz
- Motherboard
- C255346807
- Memory
- 704 MB
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeoForce4 MX In GPU VMem 65344KB
- Sound Card
- nForce 6-Channel/Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- DELL 174FPC
- Screen Resolution
- 1024 by 768
- Hard Drives
- Disk C: NTFS 70.7 GB
Disk D: NTFS 37.25 GB