Customer Rating: 
Summary: So close to being great!
Comment: I want to love this little Numie, I really, REALLY do. It fits perfectly in a record crate, and has an overall good feel to it. It can run for quite a long time off of batteries, which is neat. And somehow, it manages to get HUGE sound out of its little built-in speaker. It's held up very well over the past 80 or so hours of usage, even after being toted around and tossed about.
HOWEVER, however, as others have mentioned, there is a very noticeable audio quality difficiency with certain frequencies. It's apparent when using the built-in speaker, and totally overwhelming when using headphones or recording (and don't worry, I tried all the outputs, at all different levels with types of equipment). I haven't taken the plunge and replaced the stylus (or even the whole cartridge), because that'd be about 40% of the cost of the entire unit right there. If I knew for sure that that'd solve the problem, though, I'd go for it!
Another odd quirk is trying to play records with the unit plugged in and batteries installed. It seems like the RPMs are more apt to drop when in this configuration. It's absolutely not a dealbreaker, as it's super-easy to pop out the batteries when you're not using them, but I thought I'd mention it for anyone else experiencing the same issue. I get pitch-perfect speed when using just the AC adapter -or- just batteries.
Ah, Numark PT01... you're such a neat, neat record player. Why can't you just sound a little better!??
