Teac calls its new system a "Multi Music Player/CD Record-er", which I guess is par for the course in the 21st century. After all, who among the young set would know a turntable as anything but a rotating platter thing in a Chinese restaurant? But this Teac does have a record turntable that plays 33¹/₃, 45 and 78 RPM records albeit unfortunately all with the one stylus! It also has a fairly decent AM/FM radio and an internal CD burner that accepts CD-R/RW blanks as well as replaying pre-recorded CDs.

The whole shebang is attractively packaged into a desktop cabinet made of real wood ... well, MDF actually. The styling is retro black, including the car radio-like front control panel, which has an attractively lit fascia with knobs! It displays the radio station frequency setting, current status (Phono, AM, FM, etc) and recording level. Unfortunately, the all-black colour has flowed into the top mounted turntable/pickup arm section, so record playing is quite an effort in low light. A small lamp would have been a nice touch here.

If you have become immersed, as I have recently, in dubbing those old records onto CD, this could well be your saviour, liberating you from the PC as well as the tangles with software, letting you shift the task over to a more user-friendly domestic appliance that would look at home in the average living room.