Numark's TTi Marries iPod Dock and USB Turntable

We get the feeling that USB turntables have reached the same market saturation point as iPod docks did a couple of years ago. How else can we explain the flow of new products, each crammed with more secondary features than the last? Speaking of iPod docks, the latest entry into the USB turntable field, Numark's TTi, includes a dock as one of its many recording source options, allowing you to plug in any iPod Video (5th gen. and up) and iPod nano (2nd generation and up) and use it as a portable hard drive to store the audio files created by the TTi's recording interface.

As with other USB turntables, the TTi includes a USB connection for use with any desktop or laptop with available hard drive space and a copy of EZ Vinyl Converter 2, which is designed to take the legwork out of identifying the tracks you've recorded by using wave analysis and Gracenote's identification database to label tracks. Since the software only runs on a computer, we're guessing the TTi's iPod dock is to make file transfer between turntable and computer easier. Until they come up with a portable version of the software that runs in the turntable, you'll still need your computer to complete the recording process.

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