[WerTicus]

I posted this originally in the vinyl circle but i think it is probably more relevant to be discussed here:

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=113269.new#new

"I have an all digital system and decided to get a USB turn table to spin some old records for fun.

I have hooked up the usb output from my brand new and cheap Audio Technica LP 60 USB turn table to my trusty matrix mini i DAC.  Unfortunately the DAC sees 'no signal' on the usb input...

I hooked up the analog output from the LP60 to an art usb phono ADC and plugged that into the matrix mini i instead.  The matrix will lock onto a 44.1khz signal but I cannot hear any sound come through

any ideas?"

I have since figured out that the USB turntable and the USB dac are both slave devices and i require a USB host controller to talk to these things... AKA a computer.

Is there a way I can hook up this USB turn table to my USB dac?  Maybe a USB hub will act as a host controller?

I have already tried the USB input on my Pioneer BDP 150 but it does not 'see' the turn table either

[brooklyn]

I'm thinking you would need some sort of phono preamp if the turntable doesn't have one built in.

[WerTicus]

Yeah the turntable has a phono pre amp built into the analog input...there is a line level and phono switch on it. 
however i have no analoge input into my all digital system... hence the USB turn table choice.

[brooklyn]

Sounds like you need some sort of USB analog to digital converter box if you can find one.

[WerTicus]

close, but I figured it out

I need an analog to digital converter box but an optical or coax one, because the USB is still a slave device on the DAC and wont work without a computer either.

[JohnR]

I'm assuming that the DAC is where you do volume control, which is why you can't just plug the TT analogue out into where the DAC output currently plugs in?

[scottnixon]

You have to have a computer to receive the Turntable's usb output, then the computer feeds the dac's usb input.  Unless the turntable has a built in computer (not likely at all), you can not hook the TT straight to dac.   

[WerTicus]

correct john, my dac is also my volume control.

i just need to find a decent analog to digital converter but they all seem to be 16/48 limited or crazy expensive.

and ill just wear it on the chin that i didnt need to get a USB turn table in the first place

[wakibaki]

Connect DAC and TT to a computer.

Run Audacity.

Select DAC as output device. Select TT as input device.

Select Transport/Software Playthrough.

w