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Win a Fluance RT80 Turntable for Record Store Day!

NEWS – Tomorrow April 13th is Record Store Day and to celebrate, the fine folks at Fluance are giving one lucky Gadgeteer winner one of their RT80 Turntables. If you have vinyl, you’ll want this prize and if you don’t have vinyl, this prize will make you want to buy some now!

Just answer one simple question in a comment at the bottom of this post and if you’re willing to jump through a few extra hoops, you can earn up to three additional entries which will greatly increase your chances of winning. Please read the details on the prizes and the rules before you submit your entries for a chance to win our spring gadget giveaway prize pack!

Prizes:

One person will win the prize shown below:

Fluance RT80 Turntable


The RT80 is a high-fidelity turntable built with sound performance in mind elevates vinyl enthusiasts to a new standard in audio, capable of producing rich sounds, providing freedom from noise and distortion and delivering clarity on musical peaks and channel balance.

  • Premium components allow this high fidelity belt driven turntable to recreate the performance the way the artist intended
  • The Audio Technica AT91 featuring a diamond tipped stylus is designed to track your record grooves with greater precision & accuracy for high definition audio
  • Enjoy perfect playback using the balanced aluminum S-Type tonearm ensuring the stylus is rested deep in your record’s groove, producing every audio detail indistinguishable from the original recording
  • The beautiful cabinet is crafted from solid engineered (MDF) wood, incorporates isolation feet, an aluminum platter and a rubber slip mat which results in superior isolation from unwanted vibrations
  • Incorporating a high quality built-in Texas Instruments preamp, ground terminal and gold plated RCA line outputs that ensures warm, true sound

Price: $199.99
Website: fluance.com
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How to enter (please read carefully – any missed steps and your entry will be disqualified):

Between now and 04/13/2019 midnight EST leave a comment on this page answering the question below.

What was the first record you bought or your first favorite song?

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Make sure you come back to this page and leave a separate 2nd comment stating that you subscribed to the newsletter, a 3rd comment with a link to your tweet and a 4th comment with a link to your Facebook post. To get the links for Twitter and Facebook, just click the time stamp of your post and it will give you the page with that post so you can grab the link.

At some point on 04/14/2019, I’ll pick one random winner using random.org. The winner will be contacted by email and will have 48 hrs to claim their prizes. If I do not receive an answer to my email in that time period, I’ll do other random.org drawings till the prize pack is claimed.

Rules:

1. Only one entry per person (warning: I check IP addresses).

2. Gadgeteer writers and their immediate family members may not enter this contest.

3. the-gadgeteer.com is not responsible for any lost packages due to incorrect shipping addresses.

4. the-gadgeteer.com is not responsible for the winner not accepting their prize offer within 48hrs. The winner will be posted on this contest page, in the contest page comment section and will be emailed using the email provided in the comment section. Check your spam folder.

5. Winner must have a US or Canadian shipping address.

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How to Turn Plain Text into a Powerful Task Management System with TaskPaper

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Julie’s gadget diary – I ordered the Huawei P30 Pro

ARTICLE – As Britney Spears would say, “oops, I did it again…” I ordered another phone. This time it’s the Huawei P30 Pro. I know that my score sheet for buying new phones and actually keeping them has been pretty embarrassing for the last year and a half. The last phone that I bought and actually used was the Pixel 2 XL back in October of 2017 and I’m STILL using it today!

I’ve bought and/or tried many phones since then but I keep going back to the Pixel 2 XL. I even bought the Pixel 3 XL but sent it back along with the Essential Phone, iPhone XS Max, and most recently the Samsung Galaxy S10+. I liked all of those phones but just not enough to keep them. I guess I’m getting much pickier as I get older and when features don’t work the way I want them to or they should, I get frustrated and revert back to what does work.

The P30 Pro has all the features I look for in a smartphone:

  • A great camera
  • Always on display
  • Wireless charging
  • Good battery life
  • HDMI out

Things I probably won’t like include the in screen fingerprint reader because I tend to have a crappy experience with most fingerprint readers no matter what tech they use.

I also prefer flat screens to the P30 Pro’s curved display, but I’m just nitpicking now.

I’m mainly looking forward to trying out the P30 Pro’s camera. I was impressed with the Huawei’s P20 camera and got some insanely good pics with it while on vacation in California last summer. The P30 Pro’s 40MP SuperZoom is next level though and looks mighty impressive. I can’t wait to try it.

I’ve ordered the Huawei P30 Pro from an eBay seller since it can’t be purchased directly through Huawei for shipping to the US. It’s supposed to be shipped or delivered by next Friday 4/19.

So does anyone want to start up a pool to see how long it will take for me to send back the P30 Pro for a refund? 😉

I have a good feeling this purchase is going to work out this time. My fingers (and toes) are crossed, but only time will tell.

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Julie’s gadget diary – I ordered the Huawei P30 Pro originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on April 12, 2019 at 5:32 pm.

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Almost 1/2 Off! Ecovacs Deebot 901 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner for $264.99

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