The sweet spot for home turntable enthusiasts on a budget seems to be the $200 mark. This might be the best of the bunch.
One can only imagine the sake-fueled club hopping that led to the development of the Seiko Frequency drum machine watch.
TerraTec's bizarrely named vinyl ripper
By James Grahame
TerraTec has introduced another turntable to vinyl interface, and they've obviously run out of good names. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to introduce the £70 PhonoPreAmp iVinyl. It just slides off the tongue, doesn't it? They obviously realized that sticking the letter 'i' on the front of a word was becoming cliche and decided to go OneStepFurther.
Ignoring the name, it's a nifty little USB-powered box. The design is vaguely reminiscent of the Mac Mini (hence the 'i' in the name, methinks). The iVinyl takes the output from your decrepit old turntable and immortalizes it into shimmering 24bit/96 kHz mp3 format - until your next hard drive crash, anyway. The bundled SoundRescue and CD Spin Doctor software allows you to filter out the hum, crackles and pops that make vinyl charming.
TerraTec PhonoPreAmp iVinyl AudioConverterThing [via Red Ferret]
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