Vinyl to MP3, Sony announces turntable with USB output
How is this for irony? Sony wants to make it easy for consumers to copy music. A new turntable announced by Sony will allow music to be transferred from vinyl to a PC over USB, allowing consumers to convert the music to digital storage.
Sony’s PS-LX300USB turntable will play 33-1/3 and 45 rpm records to A/V receivers or over USB to a PC for conversion to digital formats. The player comes packaged with Sound Forge Audio Studio software to allow professional quality editing and production from a PC.
Automatic playback should make converting (or rather backing up) your vinyl collection to digital format pretty simple. Sony designed the turntable with record-safety in mind:
It offers a belt drive system for reduced motor noise and rotational stability, in addition to a static balance tone arm with a bonded diamond stylus for precise tracking and low record wear. A supplied moving-magnet phonograph cartridge and built-in phonograph pre-amp allows for compatibility with A/V receivers without a phonograph input.
I suspect that consumers will still have to mark the end of one song and beginning of the next with the editing software.
The PS-LX300USB should be available next month for around $150. If you have a huge vinyl collection, this may be your chance to revive it.
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