Recording your phonograph records digitally (was: Play wav files from serial input)

[Bill Freeman]

Bill McGonigle writes:
 > On Jan 12, 2005, at 16:06, Bill Freeman wrote:
 > 
 > > I have a cable (from Radio Shack) with a mineature
 > > stereo phone plug on one end (fits the sound card line in jack), and a
 > > pair of RCA phono plugs on the other end (fits the tape out or
 > > tape-rec jacks on the HiFi amplifier/receiver) (no attenuation).
 > 
 > When I tried this I got a nasty ground-loop hum on the cable.  

	That in particular was why I was doing this with a laptop: Run
on the battery and there is no ground reference connection to support
a loop.  I'd be interested to hear how others fair.  (Perhaps there's
a product here in the form of AC coupled cables, etc.)

							Bill