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Audio-Technica AT-LP7X review: a beautiful and easy to use turntable that's just a shade off excellent, sonically speaking

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Audio-Technica AT-LP7X review: a beautiful and easy to use turntable that's just a shade off excellent, sonically speaking

For a company that’s been turning out high-quality turntable cartridges since the early 1960s, Audio-Technica certainly took its sweet time to begin manufacturing record players. Unless you count the ‘Sound Burger’ of the late 1980s (which I don’t, despite its re-release), it was the back end of 2009 before Audio-Technica delivered a turntable — but since then the dam has broken, and now the Japanese specialist is one of the most credible names around when it comes to record players at real-world money.

The AT-LP7X comes complete with the company’s AT-LT10 headshell and AT-VM95E MM cartridge attached — and also with a switchable moving magnet / moving coil preamplifier on board too. All of which means that setting up this record player is about as straightforward as it gets. And it’s compatible with just about any audio system you care to mention.

The quality of build and finish is well up to the standard this asking price demands, the height-adjustable isolation feet are another welcome feature, and the fully detachable dust-cover doesn’t harm the perceived value of the AT-LP7X either.

It’s not the most exciting listen, the Audio-Technica, and those who prefer a vigorous and/or front-foot attitude to their music will find it a little more laid-back than is ideal. The rest of us, though, will find quite a lot of solace in the turntable’s ability with detail retrieval and with rhythmic expression, in its even-handed attitude to frequency response and its careful lack of influence where tonality is concerned.



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