This was a lot longer but quite incomplete and I've decided to shorten it.

davidcasemore, buzz has a pretty good reason for what's wrong. It might not be that, but for sure it's an idiot who doesn't know how to describe how it's hooked up, or is describing something that he has never seen. He's definitely describing something he has not done himself.

For this he is worthy of hate, because people who want to try out records for the first time will be misled and confused by this stupid article.


All you need to know about the veracity of this article is that the writer describes taking the digital output of the turntable, on a USB to RCA cable, and connecting it to a four hundred dollar digital to analog converter; he then takes the USB output of the DAC and connects it to his computer.

Well, okay, you need to know a couple more things: just how wrong all of that is.

The turntable has an analog output but he uses the built-in analog to digital converter to make a digital signal, then converts that signal to analog. The turntable's analog outputs are the same signal that the turntable turns into digital. Why not use those analog outputs?

He then uses a USB to RCA cable to connect to the input of the DAC. Those cables do not exist.

The DAC's inputs are digital, being USB, optical, and coaxial. The RCAs on the DAC are labeled OUTPUT, because they are.

He says he takes the output from the USB of the DAC, though the DAC's USB connector is labeled Input. Because it is.

This article needs to be apologized for and completely rewritten.

I'm leaving it at that.