Dovehunter,
A report on the turntable, it works pretty good. For some reason I could not get it to play sound while it was recording, then I fooled with it, no clue what I did, and it started to play and record at the same time, which is nice.
But all in all, based on pops, crackles and quality, compared to mp3s I have downloaded or ripped, it makes a very good recording.
Not to make you guys feel bad, but I used an original 1967 release, the album Vanilla Fudge as the test bed, it has been played several times, gotten wet somehow
and smoky a time or two
. It made a very nice high quality CD recording. Now I have a very cool variation of Eleanor Rigby, done in 67, by the Fudge, in my mp3 collection. For you youngsters, the Fudge is credited with being the cross over band from psychedelic to heavy metal, they could get cranked up pretty good. Their Version of Eleanor Rigby does not sound exactly like Paul and John wrote it.....and is 9 minutes long.
Ed