The machine I described above has been adopted by Bush and is at present on offer at Netto for £59.99. Considerably cheaper than the price I payed a few months ago.

I don't regret it however cos its a super little machine. An EXTREMELY GOOD TURNTABLE seems to do away with most of the hisses and scratches. You can obtain new needles and spe3cial ones for playing 78's. from the manufacturers.

It will digitally record directly onto MP3 players or onto a memory card for transfer to PC. If you are willing to spend a little time seperating the tracks manually (stop and start recording after each track) you can drop individual tracks direct to CD without having to use another program. eg Audacity. which also comes as patr of the package.

As a bonus the machine is also a CD player and a DAB radio.