20 Best Turntable Under 100 (2022 Updated)

I rediscovered vinyl a few years ago thanks to a colleague who refurbishes old turntables. The one I bought from him was great but huge and heavy, so I wanted something a bit lighter and easier on the eye, and this Sony fit the bill.

First impressions are a bit disappointing. It is very plasticky and has to be assembled, and I immediately made a mistake. The instructions aren’t very clear if I’m honest: you need to attach the turntable to the base, threading a rubber belt around the bottom of the turntable and a metal pin, however there are two pins which look virtually identical, and I threaded it around the wrong one.

Tip: the pin is the one at the 10 o’clock position, not the one at 3 o’clock. Once the turntable is in place, attach the lid (clear plastic, and a fingerprint magnet), plug it in, and you’re ready to go.

The turntable works with 7″ and 12″ singles and LPs, and I guess that 10″ records would also work but you may need to manually lower the arm. 33 and 45rpm are selectable but 78s won’t work. To start the player you pretty much just switch it on at the back, and push a button at the front, and it does the rest for you.

Output is via Bluetooth or audio cables, which are attached, and it seems can’t be removed. Bluetooth pairing is simple – a button at the bottom left of the base puts the turntable into pairing mode, and it paired with my Logitech Wonderboom speaker instantly.

There is no volume control on the turntable so you control this either via your amplifier (if used) or your Bluetooth device. The sound is really good, and we’ve had a number of “vinyl nights” since getting this, and have thoroughly enjoyed rediscovering our old records.

All in all, it looks good despite the plastic build, sounds good, and comes from a brand you know already. We love this turntable.

I have ended up with this deck after trying a couple of more expensive Bluetooth decks and being disappointed. The service from Bernie in the Customer Services team was brilliant and I am really impressed by the attitude of Richer Sounds (why is this the exception; all businesses should be like this?!) I cannot fault the Sony deck.

It was simple to set up and pair with my BT speaker. I will only be using it with BT until I upgrade my living room sound system with an AVR with phono inputs. The sound quality is limited by the BT speaker but is adequate for allowing me to listen to vinyl again.

I am happy with the sound from a £220 deck. The automatic arm was not on my original wish list but I have got used to it quickly. The BT has been faultless so far (2 weeks – used continuously every day as I work from home) which was not the case with the more expensive decks.

It is obviously is at the budget end of the price spectrum and it feels slightly lightweight as a consequence. The styling is unexciting but the controls are well laid out, a decent size and accessible (the Elipson deck at £x3 had a tiny button on the rear for pairing BT!).

I will see what the sound is like when I have wired it up to a decent amp/speakers but as things stand I am very happy with it and have been pleasantly surprised by it’s competence and reliability. At the price, I don’t think it has any faults.

Recommended.

This is my first record player that I have owned since 1987. Back when record players were a staple item of entertainment the high-end units were fully automatic and sounded good. Yeah, I know, there were many other features back then that made a turntable top of the line but those were out of my strata, the features that we looked for had the simple conveniences that I listed; my bar, my standard.

Anyway, this record player has those features and sounds amazing. I had no idea that this budget priced record player would perform so well and has dragged me full tilt back into vinyl music. It started with The Wall as a Christmas present and now my collection has gone well beyond that.

The cartridge is not replaceable, however I have upgraded the needle, (oh sorry, the stylist) and have had a noticeable improvement to an already great sounding record player. Overall I would highly recommend this record player, especially if you’re like me and want to be able to come home from work, put a record on, push a button, and listen to your favorite music, oh by the way, you won’t have to think about how many more hours you’ll have to work to pay for your record player because this one is nicely priced and easily competes with record players three times it’s price range.

For the beginner audiophile this turntable is simply the best value for the money. I’m a digital music guy but when you need high value this is it. It comes with the tone arm and a quality cartridge.

This unit is easy for beginners to set up. Once setup you will be pleased at how smoothly it runs. It simply makes your vinyl sound good. This unit is also beautiful in the wood veneer finish.

Its absolutely gorgeous and sounds amazing. At this price point, you will be hard pressed to find anything close. You need a turntable, just save some time researching, I already did it, so just buy this one, youll be very happy.

I sold my Harman Kardon years ago, and I bought this for the upcoming The Velveteers new color vinyl! Beauty and Beauty.

I’ve owned this turntable for about two weeks and I can say that at the cost of $250. 00 is a quality investment for the money. I have a vintage duel turntable and I wanted something I could play daily and not thrash on my vintage table.

It is very adjustable, your able to balance the tone arm and tracking force, there’s a anti-skate adjustment a pre-amp built in. The dustcover is hinged and slips off if you want to remove it. It also comes with a audio technica cartridge already installed in the headshell.

The fine adjustment for the platter speed can be a little aggravating. But overall and I’m not a expert but my opinion is for a beginner table with no frills and to be able to play vinyl without damaging your records.

Is all I needed.

Everything old is new again, and music playback is no exception. Record players and vinyl LPs are the in gadgets again, and seemingly everyone I know either has one now or has put one on their Christmas list.

All the big names are releasing their latest albums on vinyl, with special editions and fun record colors in every store window. In that vein I jumped at the chance to review the latest entry from a long-established name and finally land among the cool kids listening to music the old-school way.

Victrola’s Revolution GO offers an attractive compromise between old and new wrapped up in an attractive, portable package. True to its name, the GO is designed to be taken wherever you might want to break out the LPs, with a built-in rechargeable battery, stereo speakers and compact, lightweight form factor.

The GO has two-way Bluetooth, with the ability to stream your records to any Bluetooth speaker or function as a Bluetooth speaker for music streaming from a mobile device. Importantly, Victrola included lightly-upgraded playback components like a belt-driven turntable, vibration isolating construction, 33/45/78 rpm playback speeds and an Audio Technica needle cartridge, one of the most common and respected affordable cartridges on the market.

A quality needle improves not only playback but limits wear and tear on your vinyl. The GO I have looks sleek and understated in all-black, with a fabric covered front speaker grille and some cute cutouts on the dust cover for a bit of panache.

The all-plastic construction doesn’t feel high-end, but the GO has a reassuring solidity to it. I wouldn’t go around tossing the GO about, but it survived a 1,300 mile road trip without complaint, so Victrola seems to have built a portable machine that can actually leave the house.

Remember that record players are at their heart mechanical and have a built-in delicacy; that being said, the motorized part of the GO floats within the frame, and the entire unit easily stands on its side when using the handle.

Unboxing and setup are dead-simple with the all-in-one form factor of the GO. Use the built-in carry handle or optional guitar strap to carry the GO to your chosen playback location, pop open the dust cover (which detaches to function as a album holder, a nifty and surprisingly convenient feature) and place your chosen vinyl on the nicely-padded turntable.

The tone arm features a locking storage post and slide-on needle cover for storage and transport. While the tone arm itself is manual — meaning you must move it to the edge of the record to start playback, and back to its post after you’re done — the GO does feature auto start/stop rotation and a simple tone arm lever that slowly lowers the needle onto the record.

After not using a record player for a decade or so I found the GO extremely intuitive in this way; just make sure you don’t lower the needle too close to the edge of the record, as it is lightly-sprung and will fall off the edge easily.

Power, volume and playback mode are controlled by one large, ring-lit knob on the front of the machine. Press and hold to turn the machine on and off and cycle through the three playback modes; rotate left or right to change the volume.

Pausing playback is done by lifting the tone arm using the tone arm lever; the platter will continue spinning and if you don’t bump the GO, you can simply lower the arm back down to restart playback roughly where you left off.

One press-and-hold of the control knob starts “vinyl mode,” which is the GO’s regular album playback through the built-in speakers. Battery life and mode selection are confirmed by a spoken voice, and in the case of either Bluetooth mode, the control knob’s light ring will change colors to blue.

A press-and-hold in vinyl mode will change the machine to “vinyl stream” mode, which sends audio to a nearby Bluetooth speaker; a third press-and-hold will put the machine into bluetooth speaker mode, allowing connections and streaming from your mobile device.

Pairing with an external bluetooth speaker is a little bit of a shot in the dark, as there’s no touchscreen or pairing button to be found. The manual instructs you to ensure your speaker is in pairing mode before entering vinyl stream mode, ensuring the GO can find and pair with your speaker; it took two tries my first time around, but the GO did find and connect to my Bose speaker successfully.

I was pleased to find the GO also includes red and white phono out ports as well as a 3. 5mm headphone jack for good old fashioned physical connections — important if you ever want to connect the GO to a component stereo system.

While I wasn’t able to test this myself, Victrola’s website lists the ports as line-level outputs, meaning you’ll need to invest in a phono pre-amp if your chosen playback system doesn’t have one built in.

Connections aside, I was most concerned with the audio quality of the built-in speakers, as these are the marquee feature alongside the rechargeable battery. Across old and new LPs I found the GO’s speakers exceptionally clear, with vocals front-and-center.

Unfortunately the GO lacks substantial bass response, even though Victrola included a passive radiator between the two stereo speakers; that being said, there is some bass, and vocals generally have a nice warmth to them.

The size of the speakers are an obvious limitation where bass is concerned, as well as the fact that, while isolated, they are mere inches from the turntable. Too much bass would, I assume, easily disturb the physical aspects of playback.

A big bass hit could knock the needle out of the grooves of the record, causing not only damage to the vinyl but possibly the needle itself. At low to moderate volumes, the GO is easy to listen to, especially with acoustic records like Taylor Swift’s “folklore.

” An old mono recording of big band music was particularly fun, with the variety of instruments relatively easy to pick out. The bread-and-butter of many a record collection is rock, and Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” was one of my first purchases.

Here, the lack of bass response is much more obvious, although the stereo speakers do a decent job of reproducing each track and Springsteen’s gravely vocals; just don’t turn things up too terribly loud, as the GO’s speakers can get a bit harsh at high volumes.

Connecting the GO via Bluetooth to my portable Bose speaker immediately added the deeper bass I was craving, although the Bose’s mono setup and the limitations of Bluetooth bandwidth meant the music sounded a bit compressed.

That said, the audio quality was on-par with streaming from my phone to the Bose, so it seems Victrola has used good-quality components here. The GO gives volume control to the connected speaker after pairing, meaning no fiddling with two separate volume controls to find the right balance.

Performance from the built-in battery is solid, with four or five double-sided LPs worth of playback at low-to-moderate volume draining the battery only to “medium,” according to the GO’s voice. I would have liked to see the inclusion of a more sophisticated battery meter, either with lights or a spoken percentage, but with 12-13 hours of max battery life depending on usage, I’m not too worried.

A full charge takes 4 hours, but the GO is fully-functional when plugged in. A standard USB charging plug would have been a smart inclusion, considering the GO’s portable billing, but helpfully the included charger fits neatly into a compartment on the bottom of the GO.

Overall, I’m very pleased with the Victrola Revolution GO. Vinyl playback is delightfully manual and physical, and the all-in-one nature of the GO makes things about as simple as vinyl can be. Victrola has included quality components and so many audio output options that you should have no trouble connecting the GO to any variety of external playback system, allowing it to function as the centerpiece of your home audio system and as a fully-contained and portable playback device on the go.

If you’re just getting into vinyl and looking for a place to start, the Revolution GO is a great option to get you going, with the ability to build a system around it in the future, should you decide to.

I was a radio DJ years ago and I own about 1000 albums and 45’s. The “Revolution GO” is fantastic for me, and you too if you own “vinyl. ” I love two of its features. The first is the rechargeable battery which will power the player for an amazing 12 hours at medium volume.

Take it with you to the park and listen to some tunes you have on vinyl which maybe you haven’t transferred to digital yet. The second feature is its Bluetooth capability to transfer its audio to another sound system instead, turning off its internal speakers.

(Conversely, you can also use the player’s speakers to listen to audio from another Bluetooth device such as your phone. So if you’ve listened to all the 45’s you’ve brought with you on a picnic, you can listen to music from your phone through your Revolution GO portable.

) But most important, as former DJ, I’m very sensitive to turntable defects, such as ‘off speed’ or wow and flutter. If the Revolution GO failed in that aspect, none of these features would matter. The great news is I noticed none of those problems with this turntable.

My records sounded as pure as from a good digital source. I liked the turntable’s premium features, like the ‘lift lever’ which raises the arm off your record and then is ‘damped’ to lower it safely back down, protecting the record and the stylus.

I was also happy to see that although the stylus should last 300 hours, when it is time to replace it, the Audio Technica cartridge is available at a low cost at Best Buy. Often on turntables you buy today, they’re impossible to find if you need a replacement.

I found very few negatives. The unit is kind of bulky to carry around, it weighs 6 ½ pounds, and even though it has a comfortable strap, you’ll know its there. Second, it has an ‘auto stop’ feature which shuts the turntable off at the end of your record.

It worked perfectly on LP’s, but when I played a 45 it turned the turntable off before the record ended. It’s not a big deal though because you can turn off the ‘auto stop’ feature and then you’re fine.

Bottom line, I love having a portable record player. It’s great to take to my grandkids’ house and show them how we used to listen to our music back in the ‘olden days. ’.

I grew up with a love for record players, always having one around the house when I was young. Unfortunately they usually require a stereo with speakers, which can be costly and take up a lot of room.

The Revolution Go by Victrola changes all of that by having its own integrated speaker, bluetooth capability and a rechargeable battery that can last for up to twelve hours! The Revolution Go is lightweight and has a handle that folds out for carrying it around.

It also came with a strong shoulder strap for easy carry, making it even more portable. Victrola included a lock to keep the arm in position while being moved, to avoid damaging the needle. The lid is made from a rigid plastic and stays closed well while you are moving the record player.

The lid can also be detached from the record player and used as a display for your records. Underneath the unit there is a compartment to store your charging cable, which I love, however it can be tricky to get the adapter to fit sometimes.

I’ve been using this for about five days now and have played it for a continuous six hours, with plenty of battery power remaining. I imagine the battery life does last twelve hours as advertised. The Go includes an attachment that allows you to easily play 45’s, along with 33 and 78 records and you can easily adjust the speed for the record you are playing.

Your audio options are really cool with this record player. Not only does it have it’s own built-in speaker, but you can also stream the vinyl being played to any bluetooth speaker in the room! There is also the option to use the built-in speaker as a bluetooth speaker for streaming from a different device.

On top of the bluetooth features you have the option to connect to a system using the RCA out or listen in private with a headphone jack. The knob on the top front of the record player controls everything by pressing and spinning.

It lights up and blinks differently for different functions and is a simply perfect way to control the device. I can’t say enough good things about this state of the art, game changing record player.

The Revolution Go by Victrola is fantastic and I highly recommend it to any audiofile who enjoys the old-school sound of spinning records. (It looks cool too!).

Surprised how good it was totally impressed more than i even thought it would. Wouldn’t call the scratch switch a let down but would deffo invest in a portable inno-fader or the conversion for the fitted fader you can add to it, thats if you’re wanting to use it as a prominent scratch deck.

But all jokes aside if some one told me they were using a belt drive I’d probably become a bit of a snob after using technics most of my grown life but for some strange reason the pt 01 works well maybe cos of the size but it does I’ve deffo been able to cut on it and actually quite as good as my direct drive.

For what it is i honestly can’t fault it for what it is, its a lot of fun and fits in my rucksack with a portable speaker. Portablism’s pretty cool as a side thing when you don’t own a van lol. Darren Manchester.

Turntable is nice, the sound from the speakers is alright/pretty good in my inexperienced opinion. It does make a high pitched squeaking noise on some records (it doesn’t on my old pink Floyd record) no idea why.

But older people like my mum don’t hear it, so maybe if you’re above a certain age it would be outside your range of hearing. I can ignore the squeaking and I do enjoy listening to this record player.

Got this record player on the Stupid Deal of the Day. Having so much fun listening to my old albums while importing the songs to my Computer with one simple connection and their EZ Vinyl Converter program’ I wish now that I hadn’t giving away most of my LPs last year.

Simple to set up and you can always connect to your stereo via RCA plugs. It runs on a rechargeable battery so you can take it to the beach if you so desire. Cons : no a/c power connection and no Pause while recording.

Hope the battery last because I’ll have to take it apart to replace it. Can’t be beat for the price !.

Turntable and matching cartridge and stylii provide realistic, in person listening of jazz, C&W, and classical music from old 33. 3 rpm records. Records are in new -no scratches, condition. Reproduction is far superior to any and all of my CD’s.

Receiver amplifier is a Yamaha RX V677 purchased from B&H many years ago. Used daily for about 16 hours – music during day – program audio in evenings. Still performs perfectly. Speakers are a mixture of AR, Onkyo and Yamaha.

Arrived late and did not work when it finally arrived. I had to go to the trouble of returning it. Target should end its relationship with this merchandising partner.

For full honesty, I initially bought a Sony bluetooth turn-table, but the bluetooth was broken on it, so I bought this one next. It’s been excellent for my first turn-table! The set-up only took about 5 minutes, it’s very simple to use, and the bluetooth connects relatively quickly (takes about 15-30 seconds for pairing.

). Buttons include the bluetooth pairing button, start, stop, “pause” (the button will lift the stylus), and a switch on the back for “line/phono”. OH, and there is a switch to change the record size (12″ or 7″) and a button to change the speed – 33 or 45.

There is also an aux port on the back, which you will need if you plan to wire to speakers. Note, there are no AV ports, only the aux port. Which if you wanted to wire to a stereo with AV ports, you can buy an AV to aux connector cable.

Ultimately, I think this is well worth the price, and a great, simple-to-use turn-table. The bluetooth function is also a huge selling point for me. And lastly. Vinyl does sound better!!! I connected a pair of premium headphones to listen to a vinyl album from a current artist I listen to relentlessly and the clarity, crispness, and quality is a noticeable difference from the usual playback quality of digital streaming.

I think people can argue about it, and I was skeptical on vinyl actually producing better sound, but I heard it first hand! The music just sounds “sharper” if that makes sense. I also think I can notice the improvement from the vinyl because I listen to this artist almost daily.

The number of times I have heard each song is astronomical, so I instantly could hear the sharp improvement. If you play an album of an artist you don’t listen to as much, you may not hear any quality difference.

If you’re looking for an affordable, easy to use (fully automatic) turntable to play a few records over your sound bar or Bluetooth speaker, this is a great buy for newbies. I bought this out of mere curiosity as I’ve never owned an automatic turntable and AT has a decent reputation at most price points.

I say most because this turntable is the outlier to that general statement. When I opened the box and took the turntable out, I began looking for the platter to no avail. Turns out the platter included with this is the only platter that it comes with and it weighs about 1/10th of what I would expect it to.

The entire thing must weigh 4lbs with the lid attached. You cannot adjust the tone arm and the stylus attached is bottom of the barrel. If you’re not used to hi-fi sound this won’t bother you but going from an actual setup to this was like nails on a chalkboard.

I’ve heard Crosley briefcase players do better than this. Those cost about $60. I will say, setup was a breeze. From the time it took me to cut the tap off until it was plugged in and playing was less than 5 minutes.

No joke. Missed the return window and now I’ve got to deal with the shame of selling this to the next unfortunate soul. Bless.

I’m so happy I waited for this turntable to come back into stock. I’m absolutely in love with it! First, it arrived super quick – within a couple of days. The packaging was superb – I’d had some bad experiences with badly packaged and delayed goods over the Xmas period so these were major boxes to tick for me! I was so impressed with both.

The turntable itself took me about 20 minutes to set up – I took it slowly it the instructions are clear, everything is easy to find and well designed, and I connected to my Bluetooth speakers in no time.

I was like a kid on Christmas morning when I played the first record – I’ve been waiting to upgrade for a while and the sound is so much crisper, clearer and warmer than my previous setup. For the price I imagine this has to be up there with the best sound you can get.

I am so thrilled with this purchase – it’s the perfect table for someone who doesn’t really have the time (or funds) to get the whole shebang. The built-in preamp and the Bluetooth connection takes complicated decisions out of the process and makes the whole thing a ready-made, fun experience.

Beautiful sound, easy to operate, sleek and smart design, looks fab in my living room – finally enjoying my vinyl collection again!.

Bought this turntable for my father so he could listen to his ‘Classics’ once more. As he has a Bluetooth amp, it was an ideal addition meaning it could sit on the table next to him and link with the amp.

The turntable is fully automatic or manual, on fully automatic you just press one button and it lifts and drops the tone arm on the record. You can of course do it manually if you wish but for my elderly father the one button approach is much better.

There are no set ups to do with turntable, just unbox it plug in the power and hook the drive belt over the motor. Sync with amp is just a case of pressing a sync button and your away. Sound wise I was extremely shocked how decent it sounded, so much so that I brought a few of my fabulous “classics” over to listen to with him.

If your a hifi guru then it’s not for you, but if all you have is one of those terrible plastic turntables then this is a world apart. The turntable was was from RicherSounds, ordered over their website and arrived in a few days.

So to sum up, a great Bluetooth turntable with very good sound, straight out of the box.

This is an elegant, simple turntable, and I like the Ortofon cartridge, that was a big selling point for me. I didnt realize the cue lever was optional, and in my opinion, it should be standard , not an opinion.

$40 extra is too much for what that is, and unfortunately I cant get one shipped to me in Canada. This was a gift and seems incomplete. I like the turntable. And this would have been 5/5 except for the lack of cue lever.

I also love the fun colors available.

A very impressive, no frills turntable. (I did buy the optional cue lever. )Nice sound delivery. What totally impressed me was the quality and speed of U-Turn’s customer support. My cue lever had a minor issue due to an unusual heat wave here.

I emailed customer support Sunday evening, they responded within a couple of hours of opening time and asked for a photo to analyze the situation. Almost immediately they suggested the solution and by noon Monday the problem was totally solved.

Thanks U-Turn.

Sounds better than my past portable turntable, a bit of process to put belt on but was to be expected, price point is okay, overall pleased with sound, quality of product and how it plays my vinyl’s.

Bought this for the living room to replace a cheapy deck I bought on a whim in a sale a few years ago. Big plusses: literally everything you need apart from amp and speakers is in the box, including RCA phono lead with earthing connectors and USB cable, as it has USB output (not tried yet).

RCA outputs are switchable between line and phono levels. It’s clearly modelled on a Technics 1200, but the retractable light is replaced with a detachable one (no biggy). 78 speed selectable by pressing 33 & 45 buttons simultaneously, though it suggests having a separate (not supplied) headshell for that.

All rear connections are heavily recessed, so theoretically it can sit flush against the wall. Minuses – the start / stop and speed selection buttons are more wobbly that a 1200. I can’t see this being a problem though.

The lid connectors aren’t as grippy as a 1200, so when I took the lid off one of them detached and fell down behind the shelf. This means I had to leave a inch gap between the wall and deck to fully raise the lid.

A very minor gripe though, as is the fact it has a wall wart rather than an inbuilt transformer like a 1200. Given the fact a flagship Moog Matriarch synth (a shade off 2k) has one, this really isn’t an issue.

Now it’s in situ I’ll never think of it again, but if it was a working gig deck, it would almost certainly cause problems. Overall, for £240 in a domestic environment I’d give it a resounding 8. 5 out of 10.

Richer Sound had a 6 year extended warranty for £24, which is refundable if unused. It seemed like a no-brainer. To say it’s replacing a cheapy belt driven Jam deck (£50 in a half price sale at Fopp) it’s like moving up to a Rolls Royce after having a handmade bogey.

Headshell has standard connection, so I’ll probably replace it with a Stanton or Ortofon one in the near future, and might get a rubberised slipmat to sit under the supplied one too, but other than that it’s a chef’s kiss of a deck from me.

While some pretentious audiophiles may call the AT-LP120XUSB a rip-off to the infamous Technics SL-1200, it is NOT. I’d be dishonest to say they aren’t alike, but it’s certainly not a rip off. It’s a low cost compromise that does it’s job great.

The build quality is pretty good for it’s price range, and it is a perfect entry/mid-range turntable for enthusiasts looking to get into higher quality turntables for enjoyment. It’s perfectly suitable for upgrades, whether it be the stylus/cartridge, the headshell, the mat, and/or the counterweight, you can do it.

My only complaints are: – The AT-VM95E cartridge is mediocre, and an upgrade is needed to bring out true potential of the LP120 – The anti-skate quality is shoddy. I have to change it almost every record to ensure it isn’t distorting.

No matter how I calibrate it, it will aggressively want to go inward or outward, I cannot find a sweet spot for any position. However, there’s people who don’t have this problem at all, and people where the anti-skate just doesn’t even work.

So you’re kind of rolling the dice on that, sadly. Nonetheless, I recommend it in contrast to below or on-par model turntables. If you’re still unsure, I don’t blame you. AT’s quality control with their flagship turntables could be better.

Also consider the “upgraded” AT-LP140, since there aren’t any complaints about the anti-skate with that model.

It’s an ok thing. It is the fake Rolex of turntables It really offers no advantage over any 40 year old Technics, which frankly has better build quality. I can see why a novice gives this plastic mess 5 stars.

It’s shiny. It looks impressive, just like fake Rolex’s and Coach handbags. It is a plastic turntable with several pounds of weight added to give the illusion of the build quality the turntable it was copied from (The Technics SL-1200) has.

It’s has an unremarkable small motor driving a very light weight aluminum platter. The arm may or may not come with dampening fluid in the cueing barrel due to lackluster Chinese production. Years ago, Gemini made a similar Technics copy, and those were executed with better results.

With the dust cover on, the shabby plastic hinges barely hold the cover in place, introducing resonances. Heck the plastic ABS plinth and base do a good job of doing that on their own. If you must have one, buy it used off eBay.

Finally, the AT95 cartridge is dull, lifeless and should be replaced immediately with an Ortofon Red, Shure or better Audio Technica. In my opinion, the TEAC ATN-200 is a solid entry suitable for any record aficionado, novice or audio guru.

The turntable is great value especially as its fitted with a cartridge costing close to 100. The only problem with the turntable is the supplied anti skate weight. Its far too heavy and not just a little.

Set according to the instructions the arm pulls violently to the right to such a extent its impossible to cue a record using the cueing lever. I used a test record to set the anti skate and ended up using a fishing line split shot that was far lighter than the supplied weight.

Outside of this annoyance the table when set up is very simple to use and in this price range excellent value. Sound is good and the stylus tracks beautifully. I think the tone arm is excellent.

The Pro-Ject, Debut Carbon 2M Red turntable was a complete surprise package. It is indeed audiophile quality, disguised as a very simple yet elegant component which could belie the clever design beneath and the amazing sound it delivers.

The operation is simple to the point of basic, actuate the motion, lower the cartridge and await the pleasure. be prepared to be impressed and add the dedicated preamp to achieve the next plateau of performance.

The sound is clear, detailed and full, no hum or distracting noise despite playing some rather worn yet treasured recordings across a broad range of genre. That said a through record clean certainly helps as well.

Overall, would I buy it again and would I endorse it to other hifi affectionados, emphatically yes. it offers amazing performance at a rather modest price!!.

Saw a heap of reviews online and this was a highly rated budget turntable. I was really excited to receive it. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. Sound quality is really good for the price and the Bluetooth sound quality was also acceptable.

However, the turntable speed was not correct – 33. 3 RPM records were playing at 33. 65 RPM and were notably higher pitched and faster. The product feels extremely cheap as well – all plastic and the buttons are extremely clicky.

I returned my unit – I may just have been unlucky to receive a bad unit but would warn others to be careful.

This turntable is such a good one for a beginner like me. I upgraded to audio technica from having a cheap suitcase record player and it has been amazing so far. The records that skipped previously when I was using my old record player doesn’t skip on the audio technica.

The bluetooth feature is so convenient as I just have this connected to my bluetooth speaker and it sounds great! Haven’t experienced any skips and also so convenient that you can pause/play, start/stop and it does it for you automatically.

Price is a little high compared but worth it in my opinion in the long run. Glad I ditched my suitcase record player that ruins your vinyls.

bought this turntable as a low cost replacement for my old hi-fi turntable, after it failed. I still have a number of LP records that I want to play or record and wanted something to enable me to do that.

The turntable is very easy to use with 3 main control buttons: Start, Stop & Raise/Lower. Start fires up the turntable and sets the stylus down accurately to start playback. Press Stop at any point and the stylus lifts off and returns to its park without any fuss.

Raise/Lower allows manual positioning of the stylus on the record and is easy to use. The LP60 also has a 33/45 speed selector button on the front and a centre sleeve if you wish to play 45s without a centre hole.

My only criticism is the lack of an indicator light to show whether the power is on. I dont know if it uses any power when not operating so I turn it off at the plug to be sure. This is probably sensible anyway!.

The turntable can operate in two different modes and these can be selected by a toggle switch on the rear. The first mode is normal LP play when connected to the RCA Phono plugs on your amp. The second is to digitise recordings when connected directly to a PC using a USB type cable.

Both cables come supplied with the turntable. To make a digital recording you need some software like Audacity which is also supplied, although I upgraded it to the latest version. Audacity is freeware so no cost is involved.

There was also a printed manual which was reasonably clear. I found this turntable very easy to use and the sound perfectly adequate (although I do not claim to have super sensitive hearing!). I think it is excellent value for the 110 cost and would recommend it to anyone looking for a basic deck that is easy to use and produces decent sound at a reasonable price.

Obviously, better decks are available, but for a much higher price.

I bought my first so-called audiophile turntable in 1968, a Garrard. Subsequently, I’ve owned more turntable/cartridge combinations than I can recall. Over the last ten years I’ve purchased new and used, rebuilding and re-selling the used ones.

Most recently I’ve bought and sold a Rega Planar1, and three versions of the Project Debut Carbon. I replaced the included Ortofon 2m red cartridge on the last of the Projects with a more expensive better sounding Audio Technica.

In late 2020 I discovered ultra high definition 24 bit streaming and then sold my Project. Recently I bought an unopened, ultrarare 50 year old record and this Fluance on which to play it. I now have about 15 hours of playing time on the cartridge, this set up is remarkable.

Quite simply put, this is the best I’ve ever heard. It’s beautiful, sounds wonderful, and is quite the bargain.

The Fluance RT-85 is one of those turntables that, with a bigger, better, known name, would have cost me twice or even 3 times as much. It comes with an Ortofon 2M blue cartridge (that alone would set you back $260/$280) and I bought mine in piano black.

The turntable has a great suspension system, excellent tone arm layout, which includes; anti-skate, stylus pressure adjustment, and a pre-mounted Ortofon to a removable head shell. Im an old school audiophile and the majority of my system is analog.

I use a tube phono-preamp, which I prefer. This turntable does not come with a preamp built-in so unless you have a moving magnet phono preamp built into your integrated amplifier or receiver, you will need a phono preamp for your system (tube or otherwise).

My centerpiece, if you will, is McIntosh MC 2105 power amp. I also have an ADC sound shaper 3, which is pre-amplified, three reel-to-reel tape decks, and my speaker systems comprised mostly of Klipsch.

The weakest link in my system was my old, 40-year-old, turntable. I vacillated between buying a well-kept mid-80s to mid-90s turntable like the Yamaha PF 800, which I used to own back in 1990. There were also several nice, used, Thorens models out there but in the end, I went with a brand-new Fluance RT-85.

As I mentionedearlier, a new Ortofon 2M blue cartridge is expensive and if I bought a used table (somewhere between $400 and $600), after I did the math, I wouldve spent twice as much on a used table as I spent for this Fluance RT-85.

The RT 85 comes with an acrylic platter, which doesnt need a platter mat, bubble level, dust cover and hinges, (the dust cover is designed to be easily removable when playing LPs), and a very good 3-foot, acoustic suspension/isolation system.

Though Im very familiar with the set up procedure of turntables, I followed the manual that came with it and went to the Fluance website to watch their turntable set up video. I recommend this to anyone because it makes for a good refresher course.

Fluance has been in business 20 years and makes a number of audio products that appear to be pretty good. If the rest of their products are anywhere as good as the RT 85 turntable then I think theyll be in business for a long time to come.

I strongly recommend this turntable because based on the research I did for turntables that lasted about 3 weeks, the Fluance RT-85 is equivalent to any new, $1200 turntable that may have a bigger name.

It is truly one of the best buys Ive had in a long time. Rich.

Prior to owning a the Fluance RT83, I had a Teac TN 300 SE which is great turntable with midrange specs at a entry level price. Sadly that turntable didn’t match my system and I didn’t care for the walnut vinyl wrap on the Teac’s MDF plinth.

I have always loved sleek design of Fluance turntables. I considered a Fluance RT80, but the Teac TN 300 SE offered a better cartridge the Audio Technica AT95N and was 80 dollars less. The RT80 only had AT91, and I heard the RT80 had speed control issues with its motor.

I regretted the purchase Teac TN 300 because of finicky preamp and I didn’t like feel of it. So I decided get a Fluance which is what I orignally wanted to get in the first place. I wanted to get real upgrade from the Audio Technica Cartridges that I am accustomed to.

I chose to get the RT83 with a Ortafon Red cartridge it definitely sounds a lot better than than Audio Technica ones I normally use to. The Fluance RT83 only has a wow and flutter of 0. 07% while my Teac TN300 has a wow and flutter of 0.

2%. A wow and flutter of 0. 07% is impressive for modern turntable and comparable vintage midrange tables from 40 to 50 years ago. I would recommend the RT82 to RT85 to anyone looking for a modern turntable that matches the performance of a vintage turntable from gold age of vinyl.

Still early days with this turntable but bought it to replace a broken Sony. Very pleased with this so far. To us it was important to be able to adjust the pitch, as on the Sony some albums were not running true.

Build quality is good and sound is very good. Was kind of hoping that the Bluetooth would work with a bluetooth computer, but it doesn’t! It would seem now that it only works with a bluetooth receiver not another bluetooth compatible device.

This would be useful for Richer Sounds to be aware of this, as I was led to believe it would sync up. However, it would not have prevented me buying the turntable. Audio Technica advice line was very prompt and really helpful too, which was a bonus!! Would definitely recommend this, although I would doubt the benefit of the added bluetooth as it is also a limited bandwidth and reduces the quality of the output!!.

Back in the day I owned a Transcriptors reference turntable with an SME series 2 detachable with originally a Shure v15 cartridge subsequently upgraded to a Grace cartridge of a now forgotten designation.

This via a Yamaha CA 600 drove LS3 5A’s and a Rodgers low pass power amp and horn subwoofer. This had a huge and detailed sound. friends said it always sounded like real live music. But like I said that was back in the day.

So having tired of CD’s and the fuss being an audiophile requires I sat back a long long time and I now confess folks I feed my sound system is via a computer. This chap shouldn’t even be reviewing a product I hear you audiophiles shout! Well folks I feel my tale is interesting.

I began to hear tales of a USB deck capable of recording vinyl gems of any sort!! Low and behold another memory jog brought up the name Richer Sounds and having done some research and with the Richer Sounds website help I came up with the Audio Technica 120XUSB.

I must be daft I thought there is no way this product could get any where near my previous set of years ago, but could it? Very good reviews everywhere persuaded me from sound quality to ease of set up that it was worth a punt.

And what can I say, I recorded a very old Variations by Andrew Lloyd Webber to my HP i5 computer and quite frankly could not believe how good the recording is. I’m so impressed with the sound as is and the upgrade potential that I’m purchasing re-releases such as (so far ) Tommy by the Who and Meddle by Pink Floyd.

The Audio Technica cartridge as it stands is competent and doesn’t appear to have any inner track tracking issues, the sound is tight with detail always present. The deck is well made and sounds solid.

If you wish to preserve your vinyl by using MP3 recordings to protect your albums from wear and tear look no further. Highly recommended. Mike.

Not having purchased a turntable for 40 years, I did a good deal of research before I purchased this. The addition of Bluetooth which pairs easily, makes this so versatile. Having its own amplifier means I only have to replace my ageing single bluetooth speaker and buy some decent mid range bluetooth speakers (which will probably cost a similar price).

Im just missing that extra bass sound which a little further expense will provide. It’s easy to set up and get going, even plays 78’s. The arm doesn’t automatically go back at the end of a record which does not bother me.

It means I have to interact with my new turntable which is what the experience is all about. It looks its best at night as the lights give it a pleasant ambiance.

I have been thinking about all my 60s to 80s vinyl languishing in the attic and wondering should I get rid of them to a charity shop or something having replaced my favourites with CDs, however when I came to do it, getting them down and looking through them brought back memories in a way that CDs fail to do, so I decided to play them again.

I had parted with my Toshiba linear tracking deck many years ago so I decided to look for a new deck although I did not want to pay the earth, after doing a bit of research I finally decided on the Audio Technica 120, it not being bargain basement but not costing a great deal compared to what can be paid – most of the reviews were positive so I duly ordered it from Richer Sounds – a company I had never dealt with before however I could not have been more satisfied.

The deck arrived the next day less than 24hours after ordering it and the deck has exceeded my expectations the sound quality is better than I can remember my vinyl ever sounding, the trebles, middle and bass are all perfectly clear even on some of the vinyl I had considered played to death, obviously some of this will be down to the quality of the amp and speakers both of which are Denon but if the sound quality from the deck had been rubbish the amplified sound would have been too.

The deck was simple enough to put together – there are instructions on the Audio-Technica website if the supplied ones seem a bit sparse, the deck is a straight forward manual operation nothing automatic which may be a downside if you hark back to the old tin boxes of the 60s when you could stack 10 45s and wonder when they would all start slipping.

If you are after a straightforward deck with simply operation no bells and whistles with a great sound and a good price this is one to put on your short list.

I have seen some reviews of this turntable that have found the tonearm difficult to balance for setting up the correct weight on the stylus. I also found on first use that it this was an issue, however after a few hours of use the gimbal seems to ‘loosen up’ and then the tone arm can be properly balanced.

I find the anti-skate is quite strong and needs to be set lower than the counterbalance weight setting to avoid the anti skate applying too much force. The budget Audio-Technica moving magnet cartridge performs well on this turntable.

The output via the in-built pre-amp (I do not have a separate phono-stage in my hi-fi) is of a good volume and provides good decent response when compared to other line in devices. The deck is attractive in design with a contemporary look and has a good weight to it with sprung feet.

The USB to PC is simple and works as an input device on the PC without needing any drivers. Though this is a manual deck the turntable does stop when the tone arm is but at rest and when the record has completed playing.

I haven’t tested the speed accuracy though it sounds correct on the music I have played. On the downsides; the motor is a little noisy and there is a noticeable hum on quiet passages when using the USB into a PC for recordings and this doesn’t have adust cover.

Overall for the price I paid it is good value but I wouldn’t consider it to be worth the full RRP.

I bought the record player and speaker combo. The record player is great but the speakers are a let down. There is a voice that announces whenever the speakers are turned on or off or has low battery.

This should be optional. Also getting them to pair to each other and switch between the record player and your phone is faulty and could be much smoother. Additionally, there is not a good low/medium setting.

The quiet volume is too low and the next up too loud. There is not a good background music level. I might try out some different speakers that have a volume dial and are plug-in only, not Bluetooth.

I’m a bit confused about this. I bought this a week ago thinking there was a built in speaker. I believe there’s a built in pre amp which I thought was the speaker. What that actually means I don’t know.

I bought the marley mini speaker to go with it and the sound is just ok it’s not brilliant. I can’t hear anything coming from this pre amp at all. When I switch the pre amp off at the back my mini speaker sound turns off.

That doesn’t sound right to me. I would love someone to explain to me what a pre amp actually is what it does and why my mini speaker sound goes away when I turn the pre amp off at the back. At the minute I can’t give this a better review because I think Something may be wrong with it.

My old Stanton deck finally gave up the ghost and the new audio technica LP5X was recommended to me as a good replacement, it has very good reviews and i have to say that firstly it has excellent sound quality – better than my Stanton deck – put through my technics amp and speakers.

It looks stylish in my living room. Needed to download the complete manual on line to set it up properly as the quick set up instructions were not comprehensive enough to get the best out of the deck.

its great that the preamp option is included so i don’t need my preamp. and also the head shell is similar to my old Stanton deck which means the cartridges are compatible.

Just bought this hoping it would work great. I unpacked it, got it all set up. I put a record on the platter and lowered the needle hoping to hear the wonderful rich sound of vinyl and what I got was nothing.

The needle would not get anywhere near the record. Now my wife did some research and told me to balance the tone arm. Unlike a traditional turntable you cannot balance the tone arm on this turntable so I continued my troubleshooting.

As luck would have it the pin that allows the tone arm to move up and down is rusted. Now I realize the idea of making things as cheap as possible is the norm nowadays the least that the manufacturer could do is use a pin that doesn’t rust.

The extra 3 cents it would have costed to put a good pin would have prevented this terrible review and would have allowed me to enjoy my vinyl collection. Sorry Canadian tire but this turntable is being returned.

I hope that other people have better luck than what had.

Pros: It’s a cheap record player and it does play records. That’s about as far as it goes. Cons: Very thin sound and not a good reproduction of the original tracks even when plugged directly into a 7channel surround sound system.

Internal speakers are not worth bothering with. No adjustability of the tone arm. If USB conversion isn’t a necessity, try and increase your budget for something with an adjustable tone arm (balance and skate) at the very least.

I bought a 70s turntable from eBay in the end and it’s 100 times better. Another galling thing about this turntable (as with the suitcase style and any other cheap model sharing the same platform) you can buy the deck and tonearm for about $5 on alibaba.

I would suggest it isn’t worth the money.

‘vinyl’s not dead’ but unfortunately a lot of record decks are. my old dual has finally given up so i bought this as a replacement for the hifi. it has a line level (not phono)output to plug into an amp or mixer which is how i’ve hooked it and it sounds very good as is.

the built-in speakers are adequate for low level listening but have no bass capabilities. there is a usb output to record digitally to a pc/mac if you like but if you have vinyl you play vinyl.

Ratings are relative to tier of expectations. Possibly this is the best unit in it’s tier. I do love the solid beautiful cabinet even though the lid needs removed entirely to play an LP. It’s just loud enough in a living room.

If you take this to a picnic party you should take along a battery amp as well. The choice of 12v dc input is convenient for travel (car voltage), but eight built in AA batteries as well would have been even better.

I didn’t want proprietary usb charged batteries either though (limits both versatility and lifespan), and thankfully this avoids those. One could make their own AA pack with an external plug at least.

I can appreciate the audio minimalism. Any amp has all the vol, tone, and pan you need anyhow, but at least having a separate volume for the line-out at the phonograph itself would have been handy. Thankfully the volume for the internal speakers is totally independent of the constant line-level out; Though adequate for rudimentary listening, you wouldn’t want to hear these speakers when playing through nice audio gear – which this does quite adequately – no complaints there.

The tone arm does have a reasonable threaded counterweight (contrary to other reviews). I appreciate that there are no auto-changer or auto-play/return mechanisms to go wrong. The auto-platter-stop, arm still just sitting there on the record, is a reasonable compromise between mechanical simplicity and wearing out needles when you wandered off somewhere.

I do have two major complaints however. First off the platter was not level. I had to shim the platter surface so that even perfectly flat records were not at risk of knocking the tone arm off the record.

Perhaps that is why this was a ‘refurbished’ unit. The build quality of the entire platter assembly is on the par with a 1972 kids Show-n-Tell phonograph. Any 70’s adult phonograph, from Radio Shack to BSR, even a GE Wildcat version of a travel phono, was significantly more solid and elaborately yet reliably featured.

Second, my primary gripe, is the absence of a cue lever. Any unit without automatic arm control should have one. If you want to select songs, they all should have them. Unless you have rock-solid sub-millimeter control of your hands in motion, this is just asking to scratch a record eventually.

I compensate by dangling the tone-arm from a rubber-band which I hook to it’s finger-tang to select songs. The inclusion of 78 speed was important to me in choosing this unit, even though swapping out appropriate needles will likely be a pain.

In the old days one could simply flip over a lever for the larger 78 Victrola needle. I say likely a pain because I ruined an entire cartridge on some other recent phonograph trying to replace the needle.

This unit comes with a diamond needle, the most critical aspect along with arm weight (which is fine here) as regards protecting your records. Bluetooth would have been a nice option for convenient casual play.

Apparently it has a usb output, but I don’t really care because as a musician my own analog-digital converters have got to be better quality than a unit at this price could include. This should be more convenient for digitizing if I weren’t picky though.

Besides, I’m playing it through my stereo, not some chinzy PC – no digital involved there. Legibly printed, rather than tiny molded labels on the switches would have been nice. I have to take random guesses at speed settings.

So Crosley, next time around: Cue lever, better platter, AA Battery compartment, separate volume knob for audio line-level out, visible switch labels, and hinge the lid from the left instead of the back so that the lid doesn’t ‘have’ to be removed to play a 12″ LP.

and offer optional Bluetooth. Still, I’m glad I purchased this. It functions fine through my rack stereo, is portable if one supplies 12v somehow, has a just adequate turntable mechanism, looks pretty and solid, and is priced reasonably.

I may have to hack in my own cue-lever contraption though. I mostly play this at parties where I’m too drunk for brain-surgery precision, yet playing precious rarities I’d rather not damage.

It’s a good product, but I had to fix it when I first received it (records would hit the elevated plastic part under them. To fix it, I removed an internal bumper so there would be more space). The turntable is too slow, or at least too shallow in comparison to the speed control.

As a result, discs tap the speed controls occassionally.

Certainly not for an audiophile (super lo-fi sounding), and it seems like there is a bit of a skating issue, but other than that, it works fine for my needs. I am moving in a year, and my old record player broke so I needed a nice, cheap, “in between” record player.

Looks cute if you are into that sort of thing. I bought mine for $50, and I would NOT spend more than that on it. If you are going to spend $150-$200 (retail price) on a record player, get yourself a nice record player (U-Turn makes a basic record player for less than $200).

I’ve also read that the tracking force on the cartridge of Crosley record players is quite heavy, 3 times that of a decent one — which can damage your records. But again, this will do for now.

Brought back old memories. It is great to hear my old vinyl collection and this turntable does it justice. I do pride myself on quality. I cannot justify my overall spend on high end models, but this Sony Turntable delivers and compliments my recent rebuilt vintage speakers.

The feel and build has a clever feel while operating the turntable, but become confused at the function of ‘Hign Res’. The overall nostalgic sound of vinyl together with the handling the record is why I chose the Sony Turntable.

So why would I rob myself by transferring the music to digital? I came across a record sleeve with a waring about tape recording. “”Taping is killing the music business”. That said, finding a quite moment from my family life, I have found a reason to lock myself away to recapture my love of the vinyl records.

Along with Great Sound and a Great Experience, is exactly why I don’t feel that old. Love vinyl records, love the Sony PS-HX500.

I had previously bought another record deck to transfer my LP’s to digital and had severe problems with quality and support – the recordings suffered from phasing which was at first intermittent and then permanent.

So I changed to the Sony – which after some initial software set up problems ( solved very quickly by Richer Sounds Sheffield staff) has performed very well. It is easy to use and produces a well balanced recording.

One niggle, you have to use the Sony HighRes software which has limited but adequate features ( I previously used Audacity which had a lot more features – including click removal). However the on screen dialog box is very small and results in a font size <7 when typing in track details, which is very tiring.

Sony support (who were very good) say sorry that’s the way it is.

I bought this to replace my 40 year old Dual 505 which finally died. I was drawn to the Sony by the USB port for ripping vinyl and a wadge of good reviews. In the intervening 40 years, it would seem that semi-automatic decks have fallen out of favour so I was a bit disappointed to realise that I would have to lift the arm off the record at the end of each side.

Not the end of the world obviously. I was quite surprised that the tracking weight of the cartridge was 3g (my old Ortofon ran in the Dual at 1. 5g quite happily). This wouldn’t have bothered me much if my first test play on the newly-delivered deck resulted in massive feedback when I wound it up.

This never happened on the Dual and had me really worried. I spoke to one of the team at Richer Sounds and I’ve tried a couple of things to try and help but I’m already into the territory of having additional spend suggested (buy better phono cables or a different cartridge).

Having already laid out £300, that wasn’t the plan. In fairness, the ripping side of things is great. The Sony Hi-Res software is easy to use but, as the name suggests, results in massive. wav files which are way more than I need to listen to music in the car etc.

I’ve therefore junked this in favour of the ubiquitous Audacity which works equally well. If I’d been able to visit a store before buying, I probably would have looked a bit harder as my experience of feedback would have come to light straight away and scared me off.