Vinyl will never completely die. Despite being dethroned by cassette tapes, bludgeoned Retro Turntable by CDs, and pummeled by MP3s, excerpt are still out there and the people who love them are rabidly enthusiastic about the medium. Still, despite being the most intermutual face of vinyl's livelihood, abounding DJs very have divided feelings about its practicality. The allure of trading in a back-breaking crate of roll for a palm-size hard drive loaded with digital audio is a convenience few DJs can resist.
The problem then becomes converting your existing investment in often-rare vinyl into a quality-sounding digital audio file. One solution is to purchase a high-quality number cruncher audio card, recording software, and a phono-to-line preamp that can bridge between the antiquated phono outputs of your existing turntable and the latter-day line inputs of your computer audio card. However, USB-compatible turntables like the Stanton T.90 ($435 list, $399 street) presentation a much tidier solution by combining a turntable, computer audio card, phono-to-line preamp, and bundled recording software all in odd product.