I found this turntable to be a life-saver for me. With a large collection of LPs, mostly classical, collected over a 50 year period. I find that a very large percentage of them are not being released on CD. I enjoy listening to them but don't wish to wear them out, so being able to transcribe them to CD myself, for my own pleasure, has been a real joy. Also I find it harder to find replacement parts, needles etc. for my old turntables. They seem to be fast dying out, going the way of the reel-to-reel tape recorders and Beta and VHS video tape technology.