Bought one of these some time ago and have been meaning to post about it.

If you’re a vinyl junkie, like myself, a product like this is great for archiving or just plain backing up most of your vinyl on a digital medium.

Doesn’t cost much, runs anywhere between $50-100 depending where you buy it.
Has a USB cable and RCA cables incase you want to run it through a mixer (didn’t bother testing that), comes with a case and weighs about 10lbs.

It’s quite sturdy, a post I made awhile ago regarding the break beats was all transferred using this. It comes with a hard-case top and some quick capturing software called: Audacity

Audacity, isn’t the most complicated or sophisticated audio recording application, but it gets the job done. Of course if you have another app, or pro tools, etc you can just as easily use those [PnP].

Here’s a comparison:

Non-vinyl MP3 off CD -

Vinyl MP3 -


To anyone who has the ear, the reasons are obvious and the quality is good. Whether or not your records are is another matter.