Vinyl LPs To CD

I have a friend whom I've made some transfers with. He has all separates. His transfers are excellent. I am glad to hear they're are making some recorders with decent built-in converters.

If your purpose is getting best quality archives, do it with a PC. Get a high-end sound card and record .wav files onto your HD at 24/96, then record CD-R's. It will take 2 or 3 CD-R's per LP, but sonics will be FAR better than any CD recorder at 16/44.1. Playback from the digital outputs of the card through a good DAC. I use a Digital Audio Labs 'Card deLuxe' played back through Sonic Frontiers SFD-2 MK III, Krell, big Maggies etc and it works superbly well.

This approach will come closer to preserving the sonic beauty than you you can imagine. I can't hear any difference at all. Obviously such CD's are useless for other purposes, like car or diskman. If you want redbook CD's you can down-sample the HD recording in software to 16/44.1. Cool Edit and other packages work fine. Make sure your PC has many gigs of fast HD space!

-Dave

I've had great luck using a Pioneer PDR-05. Makes very decent sounding CDs from LPs. It also uses the Stable Platter Mechanism, which is kinda like a turntable anyway. :-) It also makes a really nice transport. I bought it in really nice shape on eBay for a very reasonable proce. If you have any particular questions, e-mail me.
Good Luck!
Ed

My NAD 660 CD recorder has an A/D converter. All I need to do is plug the phone IC's into the analog inputs on the back of the recorder and voila! I have not tried it yet but I bought this unit B-stock for $495. Based in the comments above, there are several ways to do it, complicated, easy, you just have to decide how much you want to spend and what quality you want.

I understand that I can transfer vinyl to CDR's using either a professional CD writer. I assume that this can be done either on 24/96 or 16/44. My questions are:

1) can one transfer a whole LP onto a CD at 24/96? I assume not, based on inference from what's written above.

2) is there any way to write from an LP to a DVD at such an improved sampling rate and resolution? The multiple CD solution won't work in my case, but I'd like high resolution digital recordings.

Thanks to those who know more than I.