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US 7,567,498 B2Granted
Phonographic turntable with built-in audio to USB or firewire device
AssigneeStanton Magnetics, Inc.
InventorsJames Mazur, Alan Flum, Erik Themmen, Mark Demouy, Darrin Young
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Abstract
The present invention is a turntable which includes an internal analog to digital converter and a controller for a standard digital format. This allows a jack for a standard digital format to be incorporated into the turntable, so that digital signals are generated to be received by the soundcard of an external computer or similar piece of digital equipment.
Claims6
A turntable including:
- a rotatable platter;
- a tonearm for receiving a phono cartridge for generating an analog audio signal representative of an audio recording;
- an analog to digital converter for receiving an analog audio signal from the phono cartridge;
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- a controller responsive to said analog to digital converter for generating an output digital audio signal of music or speech representative of an audio recording from an output of said analog to digital converter, representative of said analog audio signal;
- wherein said analog to digital converter and said controller are included within said turntable;
- and
- wherein said output digital audio signal is output from said turntable and uses standard computer protocol.
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