![]() I am not a DJ so I am not reviewing it as one. I had one for almost a year as my first modern turntable. For example, the Teac ATN 200 as a new one, or TransAudio (CEC) and Pioneer PL512 as great used options for around $125. Frankly, unless you scratch records or need 78rpm functionality, there are better tables at this price point, and some absolute jem's used. The quality control is horrible, I've seen many with no dampening fluid in the cueing cylinder. Being plastic it resonates all over the place. It's plastic plinth and base filled with 10 pounds of useless steel to provide the illusion of weight of the Original, the Technics SL-1200. It's a Rolex copy you buy on a street corner. ![]() It's a mediocre turntable pretending to be a Technics SL-1200. Any vintage Technics with a curved tonearm is a better value, even if it needs work. Save your money and buy something better. The built in phono preamp definitely degrades the sound, even when it is off. The platter is lighter than one from a cheap belt drive TT. All of the weight is from two steel plates, one in the base and one under the platter-none of it from any quality parts. Everything, that can be plastic is, including the plinth that you see. The resemblance to an SL-1200 is not even skin deep. It's a bit too polite to overdo dynamic shifts or to attack too fiercely, though, and doesn't offer the kind of separation or space to its presentation that other, less extravagantly specified, turntables can deliver.ĭigital copies made from the USB output are equally tentative, with more surface noise apparent than the AT-LP120-USB generates through loudspeakers.īut that doesn't alter the fact that this is a sturdy record player that does everything one could expect, at a very reasonable price.I have not had a new example, but I just took 2 of these apart to get parts to make one good one, and I have to say it's an absolute piece of junk. ![]() It's a tonally even-handed listen, with low-frequency solidity, mid-range detail and top-end crispness all nicely integrated. Playing a heavyweight pressing of Four Tet's There Is Love In You, the Audio-Technica demonstrates the sort of deft facility with timing and rhythmic organisation that makes vinyl many listeners' format of choice. This last means you can connect the Audio-Technica directly to a PC or Mac where, thanks to its analogue-to-digital convertor and the bundled Audacity software, records can be copied straight to a hard-drive.Īll of which makes the AT-LP120-USB look like a formidably priced proposition. It's supplied with an aluminium platter, Audio-Technica AT-P2 cartridge and a tone-arm, and plays at 33.3, 45 and 78rpm.Īround the back there's a switch for the built-in preamp (meaning the AT-LP120-USB can be used with an amplifier's line-level input as well as with a dedicated ‘phono' input) and a USB output. ![]() A direct-drive design, it has a stroboscope, target light, +/- 20% pitch control and a reverse switch. It looks very similar to the late, lamented Technics SL1200/1210 – and that's no bad thing. The Audio-Technica AT-LP120-USB is, as they like to say in the motor industry, fully loaded. The list of features most record players tend to incorporate is a short one, but that's hardly the case here. ![]()
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