May 10th, 2006
Ion iTTUSB Turntable Records Vinyl Straight to MP3
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
There’s a sad box of LPs in my garage. I walk by it and sigh. Today I found a gadget that works like a turntable with the added boost of a USB port to record directly to an MP3 player. No special drivers needed.
ION has created the world’s first USB turntable allowing you to convert your old vinyl collection directly to CD or MP3 with the included recording software. (NO SPECIAL DRIVERS NEEDED). This turntable also has line level output for connecting to any home stereo with CD or auxiliary (AUX) inputs. This product is compatible with any software that supports USB audio input sound cards.
+Includes:
• Adjustable Pitch Belt Drive Turntable
• Vinyl recording software
• USB Cable
• Cartridge with Stylus
• 45 Adapter
• CD with Mac/PC recording software
+33 1/3 and 45 RPM.
Software allows for 78 RPM conversion
+Adjustable Anti-Skating control for increased stereo balancing
+High speed vinyl recording
+Line level RCA outputs
+Adjustable Pitch Control +/- 8%Source: Ionaudio.com via Digg
We Say: If you have 78s or Edison wax cylinders, this may be way too high tech, but it sounds interesting (so to speak) No word on pricing that I could find.
Ben says:
$140 at Amazon. Pretty cool. I have a sad box of LP’s too, I mean really sad. My taste in music in the 80s was horrible. How could I have possibly enjoyed listening to Styx for goshsakes?
May 10th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Eric N. says:
I think I saw these at Urban Outfitters in Santa Monica.
Eric
May 10th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
REDSTORM says:
sWEET, fINALLY aBLE tO rID mY sELF oF aLL tHESE gIANT vYNAL fLOATING aBOUT, tO iNFINITY aND bEYOND (sO tO sPEAK). d;)
May 11th, 2006 at 3:38 am
John Corliss says:
Too bad the site doesn’t provide a price AND the links to stores that supposedly sell the turntable either SUCK or don’t work.
May 11th, 2006 at 5:21 am
takitus says:
This turntable is actually manufactured by numark, and is just being re-branded as ion, like all the rest of ion’s products. Im sure youll have a bit more luck finding a Numark TTUSB.
May 11th, 2006 at 8:36 am
D man says:
Has anyone heard of anything like this for cassete tapes? Now THAT would be useful…. Looks interesting at least.
May 11th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Bill M says:
I use my late 70’s Technics turntable and simply connect one of the line outs from the receiver to the line in on my sound card, aka the “analog hole”. I also use WAV format for the initial recording, and then convert to MP3 to transfer the songs to my player.
The RIAA will probably sue to ban the sale of this, even though it is a fair use (as long as you keep the origninal vinyl).
May 12th, 2006 at 7:46 am
Leadlord says:
bought the last one at Best Buy. Need new needle and Softward. Website is down tho…any suggestions?
July 14th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
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June 21st, 2007 at 5:26 am
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