On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 14:37:14 -0700, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ):
Actually, I've seen technical tests of many of these low cost turntables,
and most turn out to be the groove busters that we fear that they we
http://www.knowzy.com/Computers/Audi...udio_Clips_Fro
m_USB_Record_Player_Turntables.htm
On this page there is a particularly amusing item called: "One Cheap USB
turntable. Many brand names" How many of these aliases have been namelessly
hyped here? The technical description after thorough testing is:
"All plastic construction, ceramic cartridge with inferior sound,
accelerates wear by applying serious needle pressure, skipped frequently in
(our) tests."
Actually we're talking at cross purposes here. This is not the kind of
turntables I'm talking about. I agree that these are junk and I wouldn't let
one of my records in the same room with any of them, never mind that I would
actually play a record with one! I suspect that the excuse for such junk as
these "USB" tables is that if you can play the record once and digitize it,
then you will not need to play it again. That said, who cares if it tears the
record a new one while being transfered to digital? 8^)
I never even considered junk like this when I was discussing today's low end
record decks. To me a low-end record deck starts at about $400. No record
owner I have ever known would even contemplate such a piece of crap as these
tables in your above URL. Fact is since I don't "play" in that arena, I
wasn't even aware that such junk still existed in the marketplace. That said,
I take back what wrote earlier about the low-end tier being gone, and I have
to say that it's still with us and today's $99 record decks are far poorer
than the $99 decks of the late '70's and 1980's.