This turntable required some assembly and calibrating before it was ready to use. It comes with two software applications, one is easy to use, but less flexible. The other is more complex and requires alot of time just to get one side of an album recorded. You can choose based on how much time you want to invest. Wish it came with a dust cover. All in all very easy to use. It was great to hear some of the songs that you forgot were on those old albums.