π΅ TDK USB Belt Drive Turntable: The Ultimate Vinyl Player for Unmatched Sound Quality Review
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Description of π΅ TDK USB Belt Drive Turntable: The Ultimate Vinyl Player for Unmatched Sound Quality
- "Classic" design, in the spirit of the peak of the "vinyl era", but with modern "highlights" - needle illumination and "frequency display"; Solid removable cover; Damped, self-adjusting support legs along with a decent dead weight; The ability to connect your cables to the RCA outputs (for me personally, this turned out to be the main reason for choosing); A good cartridge / needle, which over time can be replaced with more expensive ones; Surprisingly good built-in phono stage; The ability to digitize in lossless at 96 and 192 kHz (for those who are "in the know")
- I do not consider this a big drawback, but someone, I admit, may not like the lack of hitchhiking / tonearm return.
- Interesting design - looks unusual, elegant and expensive! A solid lid made of artificial leather, an elegantly designed belt drive, all sorts of light bulbs - beauty. The table is excellent, heavy and with good damping, it does not collect all the vibrations, so you can stomp and jump around as you like. There is a built-in phono stage, for the first time you can listen to records without bothering with buying an external one. Important - you can digitize vinyl records yourself!
- Mediocre tonearm, no height adjustment, I would like to be able to easily remove the shell. The native head is mediocre, it is better to immediately change, for example, to Audio-Technica AT95E or Goldring Elektra or something else. The use of even an inexpensive external phono stage significantly improves the situation (it's good that the internal one can be switched off).
- Appearance is the first thing you pay attention to. There is a phono stage, a digital usb output, optical speed stabilization, a simple hitchhiking, anti-skating, tonearm illumination. Keeps speed. Autostop operation adjustment
- Stupid design, when the microlift is raised, the tonearm does not fit into the holder - you need to lower the microlift and, after changing the plate, remove it from the holder and raise the microlift. Absolutely stupid, I've never seen anything like it. The backlight in the shell could be done as in technics - retractable. A head that is too light will not fit, the pressure adjustment range is narrow. There is no headphone output, since a phono stage has been built in. Hitchhiking does not raise the micro-elevator.