This is so wrong...

Vinyl just won't go away, along with the army of moronic "audiophile" anoraks that say cables (yes cables) have to be broken in by playing music through them for a day so before they sound their best.

Lets face it, vinyl was always crap, even those people who paid 1000s for a Lynn Sondek still played crappy vinyl records pressed in some factory somewhere by a worn out machine.

The same army of people who spent hundreds of pounds on metal cones to stand their CD players on because it made it sound better....

tut tut.. give me strength...
If you have vinyl you like the best thing you can do is find the digital version "online" somewhere... and bin the waste of analogue space... or flog it to some other succour on ebay.

... that this review is about as shonky as you claim the bundled software to be, that I can't even be arsed to pick nits.

3/10 -- must try harder. Much harder.

Any old turntable and an integrated hifi amplifier (or phono preamp) with a line output, plus the program Audacity is all you need to do vinyl transfers.

The coolest turntable to use is that disco pro favourite, the Technics SL1200 which allows near instant stops and starts (and doesn't sound bad either).