A helpful part with some deductions in the B-note, but I think at the price of excusable. The phenomenon of bouncing over the plate tonearm first I was. I now lay just a second LP under the first, in order to dampen their natural oscillation. Previously, I had (as one reviewer described here), screwed housing. While it stuck no cable at Tonarmsockel, but there was one in the swivel range. This is of course not exactly Doll. I have the cable easily pressed with your finger to another location, where it is no longer in the way now. Result: no more problems. That the tonearm has no elevator, is very stupid indeed. Hand you risk scratching needle or plate, or both. I put the tone arm on a flat ruler, let him so carefully on the plate down and then take it vice versa again. This works quite well. The device has been recognized by my Intel Mac without installing the included (mini) CD without problems (the CD was my drive on the side of the housing is not collected). For recording you need the software Audacity. The is on the CD, but they also get free anywhere on the Internet. The recording is very simple: select USB turntable as a recording source, press the red button, play board, finished. If you want to export the recording as MP3, you must download and save in the Audacity folder once a MP3 Lame Encoder from the Internet. This is but as I said only once necessary and takes five minutes. That the part can only speed of 33 rev / min, at all does not matter. You can get a 45-Er plate 33 and the audio then accelerate with Audacity to 45. The difference can not be heard. You can edit or otherwise recording with Audacity, if you dealt with the program a little. Otherwise, the recording quality, in fact, of course, not high-end and for professionals is one reason to turn up their noses. But at this price you really can not expect more now. Conclusion: a star deduction for the defects, otherwise strong buy recommendation, if one wants to save his old records described above.
