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ION Audio iPTUSB Portable USB Turntable with Software and Built-in Speaker Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: good product, but time consuming
Comment: I have only used this product a few times since I bought it. I have a newer (2008) iMac running Mac OS X 10.5. There are two software products which come with the turntable - one is supposed to be easier and one (Audacity) is supposed to be more feature-rich and capable. Well, I could not get the easier software to run properly, so I use the Audacity program.

The turntable works fine. No complaints. However, using the Audacity software makes recording a vinyl album very time consuming. You must stop after EACH TRACK to input the track information. With the simpler program, you could enter each track's info on the fly while the turntable continues to record the next track (but I could not get this program to actually record). If you don't care about the track information, I suppose you could record each side of an album as one mp3 file. But if you want to know which song you are playing and which album after you transfer the file to your iPod, you must do each track separately. Not difficult, mind you, but takes a while.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: ok but
Comment: I enjoy this product, however I am a bit PO'ed about the reliance on ITUNES for the storing of a mp3's generated from this device.
would have preferred a simple mp3 recorder.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointing at First Now a 4 STAR
Comment: The Ez Vinyl software lacks clear instructions, especially computer settings. I have tried it now for the last several hours and everything I import is very bad.

I have an email in to tech support...no phone support. (bad)

Hopefully it will be my operator error, if so I will write another review. If tech support cant handle the problem I will return

UPDATE..4STARS
had connected USB thru router which was causing problems, also changed sound pref inputs to USB Codec.
Works Great now....

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Customer Rating:
Summary: iPTUSB Portable Turntable
Comment: Great turntable. I liked the link with iPod. Good as stand alone product.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great little guy for the price!
Comment: Don't be put off by the price of this little guy (cheap doesn't always mean bad). Perfect small turntable comes with two software programs for CD conversion of desired. Reasonable built in speaker (ok so it's not surround sound stereo!) allows for playback at record shows, while you're on vacation etc... Battery option allows sound-hounds to check quality at garage sales before buying... Alltogether a nice turntable for the price. I upgraded from the ITTUSB, and am very happy with my decision. Built in carry case makes this perfect in my book! Ok so not the kind of thing you'd buy to create your 'home theatre' system, but ideal for the hobbyist/small time vinyl explorer

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