Audio-Technica seems unusually bullish about its most premium belt-drive AT-LPA2, proclaiming it ‘the finest turntable it has ever developed’. We would have to agree. Despite being founded in 1962 and specialising in phono cartridges from the beginning, Audio-Technica has been surprisingly restrained on the record player front.
The brand’s first effort was the fun Sound Burger portable turntable that was originally released in 1982, and recently updated with Bluetooth. It wasn’t until 2007 that Audio-Technica launched a full-size record player, a relatively budget USB-equipped deck called the LP120-USB.
