Turntable goes together easily and is well packed and well made. Has pitch settings slider, a button to override the slider and set at correct pitch for the speed you're on. It comes with an AT95E cartridge mounted in Audio Technica's HTSA1 headshell. Stock cartridge is an excellent budget cartridge and is a recomended cartridge by Stereophile. I chose to replace this cartridge with an Audio Technica AT120E that I had laying around from an older turntable. With 1 gram of tracking force it does an excellent job at tracking old vinyl. Be careful if you decide to change the mat. The tonearm is height adjustable on this player and the zero setting is the height with the stock mat. It is about 4mm thick. Not thinking, I purchased a carbon fiber-felt mat that was only two mm thick and the result was a tonearm that skipped erratically across the record. I ended up putting the stock mat back on and the carbon fiber on top of that and raising the tonearm 2mm and it tracks fine now. It is a 3 speed turntable and I got the black version which I think looks better. Sound with either cartridge was fine. The AT120E has a more open musical sound to my ears than the AT95 which seems to have a tighter, flatter sound, again, to my ears. You have a choice of using their onboard phono preamp or your own external preamp. I used the preamp in my amplifier and it sounds great. Haven't tried the onboard preamp but from what I've read it's not that good. This turntable also comes with a USB port and software but since I don't record my records I haven't tried it.This player is replacing an audiophile grade turntable. My own opinion is that audiophile grade and not audiophile grade is how much you pay for it and has very little to do with sound quality. People may jump all over me for that statement but I can't see the increase in sound quality anywhere near the increase in price for audiophile quality equipment. This turntable does the job well, has many features you won't normally find on an audiophile turntable, and if something happens to it I won't have to mortgage y house to buy a replacement. I would definitely recomend this unit for home as well as dj use. At $250 street price it's a steel.
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