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Originally Posted by DareUtoLoveMusicMore
Thank you. I browsed over your record collection, very nice. I need to get myself organized like that. I have well over 500 records myself, but I need to get digital back-ups of them too like you're doing. I'm looking at buying a Pro-Ject USB table soon to make it happen. Right now I use a Pioneer PL-510A with a Grado Green cartridge on it, it gets me by.
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The Pioneer will kick the arse of that USB pro-ject by miles.
The project isn't bad, but the Pioneer is really a very nice piece of kit.
The Green perhaps isn't the best cartridge money can buy, but it doesn't sound obtrusive, which is worth quite something.
What you could do is keep the Pioneer and get yourself a nice Phono preamplifier with a USB output. Like a NAD PP3. It's not brilliant, but it will sound better than the Pro-ject. Best option is buying an even more decent phono preamplifier (I love my Cambridge 640p for instance) and a proper soundcard. May be an idea. Still, the NAD PP3 isn't half bad and please keep that beautiful Pioneer. The Pro-ject is not an upgrade. Believe me, I used to own one
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As for the organisation of your records; Do you have a voice recorder or a mobile phone with a voice recording function? If so, organize your records by putting them in alphabetical order or something (if you haven't done that already) and then read all the titles out loud (slowly) while recording what you say. After that, just take your recording to your computer and type your list. That's a lot more ergonomic than sitting next to your record collection with a laptop