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I would recommend spending a decent amount of money on a heavier turn table and upgrading the sound card on your computer if you care about quality. Also, the program it comes with kind of sucks. If you really don't care about preserving all the great quality from your vinyl then you won't mind but this thing can't really handle most music.
I bought this at Guitar Center for $60. This is nice for when you want to listen to records somewhere other than where your main stereo set up is. First of all, the $279 Price Tag can't be right.
As far as archiving, this is a piece of junk. Even if you decide to buy this, don't pay more than $75. It's pretty decent for a portable turntable if you want to take something small and light out to the record store to sample some music before you buy.
It has a decent built in speaker/headphone jack/and RCA outputs.
Some of these records dated to the early 1900's. Very reasonable price. The machine has input jacks for connecting a tape player to put cassettes onto CD. The results were excellent. Comes with USB cable and necessary software, which I was not expecting. I used the machine to transfer old 78 records to CD.
It's great for what it's intended for. This portable record player is great to take record stores, listening parties, etc. I wouldn't use it to try to entertain a party full of people, as the volume isn't very loud.
This is terrible for djs that want to go digital as it is essential to maintain a constant pitch in order to mix another song. Finally, my biggest complaint is that the unit tends to fluctuate in pitch. With that said it really doesn't need a built-in speaker either.
For example, battery operation. To me it was designed only to transfer vinyl to digital format. This item is filled with gratuitous functions that should be removed to improve the model overall.
That's it. That problem REALLY needs to be addressed by Numark and until they do so I would advise against purchasing this model. Is that really necessary.
How many people are actually going to take this to the park and play records.
The player was awesome. None of my records were damaged by the player, and the speed never seemed to waver.
I'll be buying a crosley next, and if that one craps out I would probably buy another Numark. I gave it one star for every year of enjoyment I got.
On nearly the second anniversary of receiving this player, the table stopped spinning. The sound was pretty good for a built-in speaker.
I just wish it hadn't have broken in the first place. I called Numark and since it was out of warranty there was nothing they could do for me.
It one of my favorite belongings.
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