Editorial Review:

Amazon.com Product Description:
The Thorens TD240 combines high-class technology with noble, unobtrusive elegance. It features a precision-ground belt, a 3-speed electronically controlled DC motor, and comes equipped with a high-grade TP21 tone arm. The increased mass of the wooden body along with the suspended chassis enable the system to run extraordinarily smooth and provide exemplary sound.



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Rating: - Prettiest turntable on Amazon
If you are going for good looks, this is their best turntable. Otherwise you are better off with Music Hall. Thorens makes a good solid turntable, but you do not get the best sound for the money. That loses one star.

The other star is lost because Amazon does not sell any of the truly great sounding turntables now available. Even the top of the line Music Hall is only four stars. But you are talking a minimum of two thousand WITHOUT the phono cartridge. The AT cartridge that is included is a good match for the turntable.

Also, fully automatic is not so good as manual. This is because it just adds extra pieces to rattle the sound quality. No turntable over $5,000 is automatic. But manual does mean you do have to get up and take up the tone arm to start and stop.

On the other hand, if you care enough about sound quality to bother with records, then the placing and resting of the tone arm is just part of the ritual.