Gluk makes a good point, any transfers for car audio it doesn't really matter unless you have a massive pop in the middle of your favourite song. Road noise will drown out the rest.

Morglor9 Wrote:Gluk makes a good point, any transfers for car audio it doesn't really matter unless you have a massive pop in the middle of your favourite song. Road noise will drown out the rest.

I agree. I was referring to people transferring their LPs to CD to use as the main copy; so much information is lost by recording it at CD quality. CDs needn't be such poor quality anymore, but when they were invented it was a lot harder to fit a lot of information onto a piece of plastic, so they had to be conservative. The average consumer's standards have dropped so much in the past thirty to forty years; from LPs, to cassettes and CDs, to 128 kbps MP3 files. It's sad.

My main reason for recording the vinyl to digital disc is exactly what was touched on. They never really perfected the option of having record players in automobiles and many times I don't let a little thing like that get in the way of a song or album I want to listen to now.
I primarily transfer albums to cd so I can listen to those albums anywhere. Not just at home from my stereo turntable. Forget all that technical jargon and subjective opinions about loss of bits and compressions. Some of these albums are out of print, not released to discs, were remastered to disc unsatisfyingly or I simply do not want to buy the disc version so I record my own disc. And often I include additional tracks from other albums or put two albums on one disc. The reasons are many and also subjective. Sometimes I record from albums and make my own compilation disc or collection of multiple discs compilation.
So let's here from anyone who has used one of the usb turntables.

Some Other Jackass Wrote:Some of these albums are out of print, not released to discs, were remastered to disc unsatisfyingly or I simply do not want to buy the disc version so I record my own disc.

This would, in many cases, be preferable to buying the CD even if it was available. Apart from being cheaper, excessive dynamic range compression is often applied during CD mastering, making a purchased CD sound less natural than a CD recorded from LP.

My aversion to CDs lies in the qualities of the medium itself, and not in the process used to create the CD.