I know some old people who truly enjoy searching for oldtimey sound. My grandmother is 77 years old and she is not an exclusion. She is actually used to listening to music from old forms of data carriers and commonly said that modern technologies can't propose appropriate quality of sound. She refused using the CDs even when it became more commonly used than vinyl.
She collected many vinyl records during the years, most from her music lover mate Jake, whom she called “Jocko” and others from her friends and sons. There are even lots of rare records of the King of Rock'n'Roll. Unfortunately, the collection has gotten smaller with time as the records were used intensively. Lately I revised her collection and I sow a huge amount of old time records which are very interesting for me as well.
Anyway, my grandmother recently decided that her grandchildren should get better access to those amazing compositions. She understood that the best method to perform it is to use some device which is able to transform songs from vinyl to the form which would be understandable for PC.
She bought a USB turntable and started to convert the sound. I was very surprised when I saw it. She has been searching for this equipment using Internet only for half of an hour and decided to purchase the needed item.
For those of view less advanced than my grandmother, USB turntables are super-modern widgets which allow you to copy your favorite vinyl records into digital files. Everybody who desires to execute the same action as my grandmother does may search for a USB turntable in any price range. I think that is a quite complex task to such an old woman to understand all the nuances of modern technologies, but wasn't right. That is to say she did not even look at the gadgets above the 500 dollar cost tag.
My granny previewed all the proposition and chose the gadget which was most suitable. It was Stanton t90 USB. And she could not decide between the Stanton devices and Numark USB turntable. She realized that it won't be enough just to read the articles about characteristics and she wanted to try both models.
I called my sister to come to our grandmother and to see how she performs some experiments with her albums. My sister was amazed too, besides, she really decided to upload some old records to her iPod to listen to that music when she is not at home. That is a great thing that some people from older generation comprehend the significance of new technologies.