Numark takes you from vinyl to digital

(Credit: Numark)

We covered the Numark X2 Hyrbrid turntable back in 2007. Now, after adding some killer features, Numark announced that the PT-01USB turntable is now available for a MSRP of $149.

Chief among the new features is the ability to convert songs on vinyl straight to digital. You'll also get:

• Plug-and-play USB connection to Mac or PC
• Protective dustcover and integrated carrying handle
• Fits inside a standard 12-inch record case
• Wall-powered with included AC adapter or battery-powered (six "D" cells, not included)
• Built-in monitoring speaker
• Belt-drive motor with 33, 45 and 78 RPM settings
• +/-10 percent pitch control
• Converts all records up to 12 inches
• RCA line and headphone outputs
• 45 rpm adapter included
• Cartridge included
• EZ Vinyl Converter 2 and Audacity software included

[moon_brain]

I still buy records and play them. I also buy CD's and maintain a hard drive full of uncompressed CD's, some compressed as MP3 etc. In other words, I pretty much run the full range of available music formats. I'm also a stickler for sound quality. That's why these cheap plastic turntables worry me so much! There are going to be a lot of inferior copies of rare recordings out there if more care isn't taken in digitizing vinyl. I would never use something like this product to digitize music. I would use, at minimum, a technics1200 with a high quality cartridge into a high-end phono pre into a presonus or some such firewire box at 24/96 and then sample down to whatever.

[webgeek13]

GEEK! This product is for the common man so I am getting this for my Salsa!! GRAND COMBO forever!!