Jared Moya
August 17th, 2006, 05:27 AM
ARE you over 30? Sorry to hear it. That makes you part of the Transition Generation, those who have witnessed the world’s shift from analog to digital recordings. You therefore probably have a collection of phonograph records, audiocassettes and videotapes sitting in a closet somewhere at this very moment.
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RETROMODERN The Teac GF-350 can play vinyl records and make CD copies of them at the same time.
Maybe you still maintain a turntable and cassette deck, which you use to listen to your tunes just as you have for decades. If that’s your situation, congratulations; you may skip to the next article.
But it’s more likely that you’ve been staring at those piles of records and tapes and wondering if there’s some easy way to transfer them to shiny new CD’s. You imagine how nice it would be to have your music collection on convenient compact discs that can play in your car, home stereo or portable CD player — without having to buy them all over again.
The answer is yes: there is now a single machine, the Teac GF-350, that can turn your records into CD’s. (Most people spot it in the Hammacher Schlemmer or SkyMall catalogs for $400, although you can find it online for as little as $330.)
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Skip to next paragraph
Illustration by Stuart Goldenberg
RETROMODERN The Teac GF-350 can play vinyl records and make CD copies of them at the same time.
Maybe you still maintain a turntable and cassette deck, which you use to listen to your tunes just as you have for decades. If that’s your situation, congratulations; you may skip to the next article.
But it’s more likely that you’ve been staring at those piles of records and tapes and wondering if there’s some easy way to transfer them to shiny new CD’s. You imagine how nice it would be to have your music collection on convenient compact discs that can play in your car, home stereo or portable CD player — without having to buy them all over again.
The answer is yes: there is now a single machine, the Teac GF-350, that can turn your records into CD’s. (Most people spot it in the Hammacher Schlemmer or SkyMall catalogs for $400, although you can find it online for as little as $330.)
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