Item: IONITTUSB
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279 People rated this product :
6 out of 10
9 People wrote reviews
6 out of 10
"Great product"
Feature:
Unlike what I've read before I purchased, my ION turntable came with a removable dust cover and a tone arm that lifts and returns at end of lp and has a touch button tone arm lifter. Also came with a rubber platen.
Quality:
Looks fine
Value:
Searched long and hard before purchasing and found prices varying wildly. The "typical selling price" is too high.
Desirability:
A pratical addition for me. I've downloaded most of my cd's and have long dreamed of being able to "fill in" with songs I loved that are only on my extensive lp collection. I was doing it before, but I had to download from my turntable to a CD on the CD recorded on the stereo, then copy from CD to hard drive/mp3 player. This purchase cut one step out. It's a slow process, but worth it.
Sound:
Good quality on finished product
Ease of Use:
Had a couple of settings at set-up, but foundit easy to follow and it woarked.
Support:
Have a problem with the audacity software that came with the terntable (Version 1.4). 90% of the options are in question marks. Went to the website and dowloaded beta version 1.3.3 and most of the options are in hyroglyphics (looks Arablic), even though in both case, I, of course, chose ENGLISH as my language! Emailed support and got back a response within minutes, but it was a copy and paste of setup. I replied with a "thank you", but it doesn't solve the question mark problem. That was 2 days ago. Haven't heard a peep from them since. I had to just chose options until one of them saved the track I was working on. I wrote down the selection, ie. (third set of question marks at far left option tab is save as wav)
Overall:
Chose this one mainly because of price. I plan to still be copying my lp's long after I'm retired...it will take that long! Meets my musical goals, but sure, when they come up with something smaller, faster and cheaper, I'll be on it!
Submitted: 7/18/2007
Style of Music: All
5 out of 10
"Hardware Good; Software Bad"
Feature:
Features are OK, as advertised.
Quality:
Again, the turntable is good; software sucks. Even without being able to achieve an actual USB direct recording, I did inadvertently record several songs over the computer's microphone, before realizing my mistake, because the microphone is the only audio source the Audacity software recognizes (that is the problem). Anyway, I did spend some time working through the editing tools of the Audacity software, and I have to say it is a bit obtuse - it is hard to move around the visual readout of the files - when you are inserting track labels, for example, the label text appears at the very bottom of the window, so you can't see your edit indicator and the text at the same time. Also, your edit marker disappears the minute you start entering text, so that when you scroll back up to set your next track marker, you can't tell where the previous track began. It does do everything they say, and I'm sure it can be learned well, but it is NOT user friendly.
Value:
Assuming I can achieve useable software, yes I really like the prospect of being able to mine my old LP archives, without having to buy the music over again in the latest form.
Desirability:
Yes it would be cool if it were quick and easy to use. The really sexy version of this product would be a turntable with an internal CD burner - flop down an LP, stick in a blank CD, drop the needle in the groove, and begin the transfer - with simple editing controls in the form of actual buttons on the front of the unit. No computer. Then you'd have something a lot more people would use.
Sound:
This rating is meaningless, since I haven't been able to hear it yet.
Ease of Use:
Turntable seems to be fine, but the Audacity software does not operate on my Mac 10.3.9 - I see there is another reviewer here with the same exact problem.
Support:
I just registered the product today, and I've sent a request to Support to try to solve the problem, so we'll see
Overall:
I will be looking for a higher end version of this.
Submitted: 3/24/2007
Style of Music: There is no bad style, it's all good.
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