Comments on: LPs to CD – Put yourself in a Spin with the Ion Contour

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:55:42 +0000

Hi my mum was bought one of these for Xmas and I have been converting all her old albums onto disk. It has only skipped across one LP but I found it was just because of the amount of dust that had built up on the LP. After a quick clean it was fine. The sound quality isn’t great but didn’t really expect it to be anything like CD quality. I have had some problems transfering from the “ez vinyl/tape converter” programme to iTunes and labelling each album/track is very boring! Overall its not too bad.

By: jelloid

jelloid — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:08:39 +0000

i had this brought me for xmas only just tried it today completley usless just skips across the lp’s

By: Annie

Annie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:27:28 +0000

Am thinking of buying an Ion contour turntable for a birthday presant – but after reading the comments am having second thoughts…has anyone out there had any good results?

By: john

john — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:09:08 +0000

Hi Tom
I am in the same situation as you. Had the unit for Christmas and tried recording a couple of LPs. After a while the needle just skips tracks. I put a 5p on but this made little difference. I then put a £1 coin on and this caused the needle to strip vinyl from the track! I wondered if their was any adjustment on the arm but I can’t find any. Has anyone got any solutions?
Cheers
John

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:16:21 +0000

Hello,

I was also bought one of these for Christmas and I’m having exactly the same skating problem as Tom. The few seconds’ worth of music before the needle shoots towards the centre of the record is also incredibly scratchy and very tinny, as you say. I’ve tried it with several excellent quality pieces of vinyl but to no avail! Back to Maplins with it – hope they’ll do a refund.

Cheers,
Matt

By: admin

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:06:14 +0000

Hi Tom,

No I haven’t that issue, have you tried a penny stuck on the head?

I do feel the sound quality is a little tinny on this unit, and has been used where there absolutely no CD or MP3 equivalent to the lp!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:21:49 +0000

Hi,
although I do own a decent quality turntable, I was given an Ion Contour for Christmas, and the idea seems sound so gave it a whirl. However….the needle simply skates across all my (good condition) vinyl. Did you have any similar problems?
Regards,
Tom.