Audio-Technica LP2D-USB Turntable

Audio-Technica’s new LP2D-USB Turntable was first paraded at CES ’08 last month, and it is finally available at retail stores for $229. This machine targets record lovers who want to digitally archive their collection of music for posterity (as well as rocking out to tunes of yesteryears while doing your rounds at the gym without having to download and paying for them again). Features include a fully automatic two-speed turntable (33 & 45 RPM), a tonearm and a Dual-Magnet stereo phono cartridge. The inclusion of a phono pre-amp makes it a snap to hook up the turntable directly to the line level inputs of a receiver, doing away with the need for receivers or integrated amplifiers that do not come with phono inputs.