MAKING DIGITAL MUSIC

It started on eBay. Joy bought what she thought was a long-lost Simon and Garfunkel CD on eBay but it turned out to be an old vinyl record. We had no way to play that, so we bought a phonograph. You might think these players weren’t made anymore – and for a few years you never saw them advertised. But they are still made, and they’re much cheaper than they were back in the days when high fidelity equipment was all the rage. We started out by buying one from IONaudio.com. It promised to convert any old vinyl record to a digital file that could be turned into a CD, but it was awkward to use and the quality was mediocre. […]

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