I bought one, from ION, not good I took it back, and went back to my old turntable with a audio converter. I tried everything I could think of with the Ion, first the tone arm was stiff in the gimble assembly, the balance mechanism was not accurate enough, the anti skate feature, didn’t work. the cartridge and needle where not of good quality, then I tried my own cartridge, the counter balance would’nt work with it, I even tried adding lead(both cartridges counter balanced fine on my older Sony!) Overall, the idea was fine, the quality, well, it sucked!