As for CoolEdit 2000, it was apparently bought by Adobe and discontinued
after a fashion.  Technically, you can upgrade to the new product, Audition
(version 1.5), for $169 if you had CoolEdit 2000 and for $69 if you had
CoolEdit Pro; if you're buying for the first time, it's a pretty steep $299.
For that money, you're getting a pretty full-blown audio editing package,
certainly overkill for the kind of use we're talking about here.  There are
certainly cheaper options out there, but I personally can't speak to ease of
use or functionality of any of them.

Christopher

> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
> Of Stewart Mason
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 12:51 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: CD recorder
> 
> At 08:39 AM 6/14/2004 -0500, Sager, Greg wrote:
> >Actually, I'm looking to buy the same piece of equipment. I wouldn't be
> at
> >all surprised if there are other Auditeers who have extensive vinyl and
> >cassette collections who would also be interested in purchasing a CD
> >recorder at some point. Since it's pretty commonplace to post
> >equipment-related threads on this list, if someone would like to share
> their
> >expertise with all of us rather than just with Bill off-list, please do.
> 
> Everyone I know who has a standalone CD recorder has complained about it
> mightily.  If your home computer is relatively up to speed -- say, at
> least
> a Pentium or equivalent chip, a decent sound card, a large hard disc and
> at
> least 256K of RAM -- then you won't have any trouble using it to transfer
> vinyl and tapes.
> 
> For myself, I just bought a Sony turntable with an internal preamp (about
> $80) and plugged it into the LINE IN jack on my sound card, using a $3
> adapter from Radio Shack that converts stereo RCA plugs to a 1/4-inch
> headphone-style plug.  I bought an old Pioneer cassette player from a
> pawnshop for $25 for tape transfers.  Unfortunately, my preferred
> recording/editing/cleanup software, Cool Edit 2000, is no longer
> available,
> but there are plenty of other good ones out there.  (I think SoundForge is
> still around, and I know that recent versions of Cakewalk Pyro, which is a
> pretty good CD burner application, have vinyl cleanup tools as well.)  So
> that's $108 for hardware, and I don't actually know how much the average
> software package costs these days, but my Cool Edit plus the audio cleanup
> plug-in cost a total of $118 and that was higher than most, so that's only
> $226 starting from scratch.  I'm pretty sure that's cheaper than a
> standalone CD recorder.
> 
> S
>