Teac's GF-650 tabletop player enables vinyl-to-CD transfers
By Darren Murph 
posted Sep 13th 2007 7:03AM
posted Sep 13th 2007 7:03AM
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$740 to transfer my vinyls to cd audio? No thank you. Cheapo audio out from my player to audio in on my PC will do for me.
Not a bad looking setup.
Admittedly a little weak in the output department, but then again it's target audience is probably just using the speakers to make sure it's playing and then going off to do something else as opposed to using it for a primary system.
For that kind of scratch (yeah I went there) it better do a really good job.
I saw that unit on "It's all Geek to Me". I think the consensus was that it sucked.
$740??? For that amount, you could get a REALLY nice pro turntable and a decent sound card.
since old vinyl tends to skip and get stuck in the groove, you had best not walk away if ripping your tunes. Hanging around will also give you time to realise that most songs are now available as MP3s (I don't suppose this thing does Ogg), and that you no longer really like that record so much ($740).
Acoustica's Spin It again software does this, with cleaning effects, auto tracj splitting, freedb.or lookup, all for on $39.95
hey,guys! here i am!
No 8-track or cassette recording option? Ok, maybe it's time to have my grandchildren convert the medium for me.
for the same price you could pick up a pair of old SL1200's ,stanton carts, and a mixer.
so cool
I could have sworn the same thing has been in SkyMall for a few years now....
..yep: http://www.skymall.com/shopping/detail.htm?pid=69733891&c=
Sheeyeah... that could have saved me hours. I used my old-fashioned turntable and my PC to convert all of my grandpa's LP's. Calliope music now gives me the shudders. Even more than before.
Where did they put the giant horn and the dog?
Nice spot john. Appears to be the exact same unit for half the price.
I'm an avid vinyl enthusiast (I haven't bought CD's in years - only vinyls) and buy at least a few per week on average.... and I have to say this is crap..
Even though I love listening to vinyl (which I do on a daily basis), I also convert the medium over to digital by using my few year old computer and a 50 buck usb external sound card... and it sounds great.... I bought my direct drive turntable (that needy a new cartridge / stylus) for $50, and it is a fully automatic direct drive quart Pioneer... I then slapped a Grado Prestige Green series cartridge / stylus on there, and BAM a lot better sound than this Teac could ever muster up, plus for a hell of a lot cheaper...
Plus who rips vinyl to a mere 16bit/44khz? 24bit/96khz FLAC FTW...
We had some of the previous models in store and they are rather average.