Again, the way that the MusicCast Vinyl 500 goes about making music is less about relentless, in your face urgency than it is refined, spacious and wholly effortless musicality. The streaming section is able to deliver a fine performance too. It isn’t the most intense performance going but it balances being able to let great pressings sound good without showing up poorer ones. There’s an appealing flow to the presentation which combines with a lush tonal presentation and forgiving top end to sound consistently engaging. The output from the internal phono stage has plenty of gain which means that your amp won't struggle to give you your desired volume level when listening to records. There’s no unwanted noise and the pitch stability is very good. The MusicCast Vinyl 500 gets all the basics right though. Judged purely as a turntable, the Yamaha is a good if not truly spectacular at the price the unavoidable aspect that the whole cost of the unit includes items that are not directly involved in vinyl replay means it will lose out to similarly priced models that are purely turntables. Aside from a little wireless and Bluetooth status LED, it’s a conventional and handsome looking turntable that is finished to a high standard. It’s seriously clever and made all the more fun because unless you know the Yamaha can do this there are few clues to suggest it can. As well as doing all the normal things you might expect a streamer to do, you can also put a record on and send the signal wirelessly to other MusicCast devices in the house. This means you would miss out on the party piece of the MusicCast Vinyl 500 though. There are connections to bypass this internal phono stage but using them means the streamer section can no longer be used. An internal phono stage is fitted, meaning you can simply connect the Yamaha to any free input on your amplifier. An unusual tonearm that combines a straight armtube with a detachable headshell is fitted along with an Audio Technica moving magnet phono cartridge. The Yamaha has a steel platter with a thick felt mat providing the commensurate damping. The turntable section is belt driven and offers electronic speed selection which is always a welcome touch. This might be an odd place to find a network streamer but it’s not an afterthought. You can also control multiple devices throughout a home via a single, well designed control app. It can play your own stored files, integrate with a wide selection of streaming services, offers internet radio access and allows you to connect via AirPlay. The MusicCast platform that Yamaha has developed is an extremely clever one. This is because the Music Cast Vinyl is both a turntable and a fully fledged network streamer. The Yamaha MusicCast Vinyl 500 is a device with a specification sufficiently odd that when it is described to you, it will result in you either making a slightly confused facial expression whether you want to or not or that same face lighting up when you realise that Yamaha has made exactly what you need.
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