Review on High-Quality Teac TN-300SE-MB Analog Turntable In Matte Black by Carlos Barrett

What can I say about the Teac LP-R660USB? I bought it because I wanted a way to digitize to CD items from my music library - specifically old, out-of-print LP albums and cassettes I'd collected over the years. I'd previously done this using a TASCAM CD-RW4U (also a Teac product) but which I had finally discarded when the unit literally stopped functioning. Now maybe the CD-RW4U was supposed to be a more precise CD rewritable recorder, but it did not include a turntable or a cassette deck, which the LP-R66USB does have. It relied upon an external audio source connected by cables. And even though the two units possess basically the same digitization system, in my experience the CD-RW4U's operation was too damn sensitive. I don't want to think about how many CD's I'd burned that came out bad. But I have had the LP-R66USB now for several weeks, and its functionality appears to be decent. I've now successfully transferred a good number of LP's and Cassettes to CD, and even though its playback capabilities are at best only basic - you can use it to just play either LP's or cassettes - its speakers are pretty quaint, so to speak, and their output sounds clearly shallow and two-dimensional compared to those of a decent stereo system.My CD/cassette ghetto blaster sounds better. But hey, that's okay because I bought it to make CD's, and the discs I've made sound really nice on my stereo system as well as in my car CD player ( yes still have a car with one of those). Anyway, bottom line is: I'm happy with the unit and like I said, it does what I wanted it to do.