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ION Audio iPTUSB Portable USB Turntable with Software and Built-in Speaker | 
| Brand: Ion
Category: CE
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $73.99
as of 11/27/2009 15:02 CST details
You Save: $76.00 (51%)
New (16) Used (1) Refurbished (1) from $68.00
Seller: breath_of_fresh_air
Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 1178
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 17.5 x 14
Warranty: Ninety Days
MPN: DIO IPTUSB
Model: IPTUSB
UPC: 855960000559
EAN: 0855960000559
ASIN: B00032BOLO
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Turns records into MP3 format | | • | Protective dust cover with integrated carrying handle | | • | Fits in a standard 12" record case | | • | Battery-powered by 6 D batteries or AC power adapter | | • | Built-in speaker |
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Product Description
The easiest way to bring your record collection into the digital age!With the iPTUSB, ION has created a revolutionary battery operated portable USB turntable enabling you to convert your old vinyl collection to CD or MP3 using included recording software (no special drivers needed).The iPTUSB turntable also has a line level output for connecting to any home stereo with an AUX input and a built-in speaker for stand-alone operation.EZ Vinyl Converter by MixMeister is included free with the iPTUSB and provides the easiest way to convert your records to your computer's digital music library. Simply plug in your iPTUSB turntable, specify track information and in a few mouse clicks you're done! EZ Vinyl Converter automatically imports your songs directly into your iTunes library.Once digitally converted, you can sort your music, make custom playlists, and easily take songs with you on an iPod or play them directly from your computer. Finally your record collection can be available wherever you are.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 30
 ION Great USB November 19, 2009
David Emond
This unit is much more compact than I expected. It stores and unpacks quickly and is easy to use and understand. I am recording to MP3 all my vinal and Cassetts and this has made the job MUCH easier. You will not be dissappointed.
 Fluttery uneven speed is a fatal flaw, but here's the fix. October 4, 2009
Cousin Hepcat
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fluttery uneven speed is a fatal flaw.
If you listen to music without any perfectly "constant tones", like rap (with no melody), there's nothing wrong with this turntable.
Otherwise, especially when you hear a piano or an orchestra, I'm annoyed by the flutter in the speed - a rapid repeating speedup-and-slowdown, real fast, maybe 10 times a second, that makes the music "flutter", like when you talk to yourself in front of the spinning blades of a fan. Subtle, but it's DEFINITELY there, and very annoying.
I get around this problem by putting a MASSIVE thick 12-inch clay Victrola record from the 1920's on the turntable, underneath the record I'm playing. That acts as a "flywheel" to add weight and mass to the turntable, and even out the speed, eliminating the flutter. You can stack a couple heavier-weight LPs under your record. (Or, if you're using this to play Victrola records - problem solved right there.)
Then the turntable sounds OK.
But when I turn up the volume, on the loud parts, the amp tries to drive itself harder than it's capable of, and "sucks power" away from the turntable motor, and the speed slows down in the loud parts of the music. That REALLY SUCKS when the orchestra swells then the pitch goes flat.
So, if you DON'T PLAY IT LOUD (connect it to an external amp if you want it loud, don't try to use the internal speaker), and you PUT A COUPLE HEAVY RECORDS ON THE TURNTABLE underneath the one you're playing to even out the flutter, it's fine.
 All the 1 star reviews are ... correct. September 16, 2009
SomeGuyAtWVC (Palo Alto, CA United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was an experiment in human nature. I wanted to transfer my old LPs so badly that I thought this might be worth a chance. Well it turned out to be so bad on so many levels that now I'm embarrassed. Mainly the sound quality is, maybe, 8-bit resolution - if that. It did, however, monitor ambient sounds like - aircraft flying over - while I tried to transcribe a test transfer to a file. At least the file creation did occur. If you want to take it off my hands, and pay my costs (54.99USD + shipping costs to you) - make a comment on this review. I have to admit, Woot did warn me.
A terrible waste of money September 2, 2009
dgawed (Texas)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Save yourself some anguish and avoid buying this. Ours never worked from day one. Thinking we had not hooked up something, we asked a techie friend for help. He concluded the problem was in the turntable. We had thrown away the box so we learned an expensive lesson NEVER to buy electronics on the Internet--unless you are an electronics repairman.
WOW!!! (and flutter too) August 15, 2009
Monk Mayfair (Hildago Trading Building)
I haven't heard anything this bad since my Close N Play. Maybe their upscale turntables are better, but this portable one really has a problem with speed variations.The addition of a pitch control knob marked +10% is silly when the pitch is floating around alot more than that.
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