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An analog question for those who record

I am going to buy either a reel to reel or a VHS recorder to record my vinyl onto for repeated playbacks. Is recording vinyl possible by simply hooking my preamp up to a VCR hitting record and dropping the needle. This would be ideal as it has a long run time via the VCR tapes. I have heard VCRS have good analog sound. Should I just go with a reel to reel? Cassettes arent really an option but I have heard some recordings from vinyl onto cassette that sound great. I also am aware of digital recording using audacity and have used it hundreds of times. However I like analog and if I want digital I will just pop in a cd. Do you think there would be a huge difference in the quality one way or another.
davidnboone
dmgrant1
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I am also interested in doing hi-rez transfer of vinyl to digital. I won't abandon vinyl. It would just be nice to have it in a hi-rez format. I think 24 bit 196 would be good.

Where can I find an analog to digital converter at 24/196 and what does it cost?

Are there alternitives to the excellent, but pricey, Pure Vinyl set-up?

thanks
davidnboone OP
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Everything about this hobby is costly!!I should have been clearer in the title. I don't really care about preserving my stuff onto vhs or reel to reel. Just making mixtapes of my favorite vinyl selections for personal listening while playing pool. A VPI scout will be used to play vinyl when I want -I don't like repeated playings of costly albums unless I have time to properly enjoy and I want the benefit of not flipping on a different vinyl every other song during a game of 8 ball. I just basically have in mind making mixtapes.I have lots of cds but they do not match the all analog I am after. I already have everything I like on cd but I want analog I just want to have Analog recordings to play on demand.
davidnboone OP
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I will do some homework about what you said about the DACS Herman. This would require rebuying a computer as I no longer have the one I recorded and used Audacity on.
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inna
7,251 posts
 
I do exactly what you want to do, and I use finely tuned and aligned Nakamichi 682ZX cassette deck with reference metal tapes. It sounds good with better type II tapes too.
Good reel to reel will sound better but will be most likely more expensive as others said.
Revox cassette decks could be an alternative to Nakamichi.
I never tried to use high end VCR for this purpose.
How close to the sound of vinyl do you want your recording to be?
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