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Hi-fi snobs look away! I have some old vinyl, I want to play it, I don't have much space and I don't want to go down the separates route. I'm expecting the built-in speakers in portables record players to be useless, but I know some offer bluetooth paring to speakers or headphones. Are there any models that can put out a decent sound via bluetooth?
Watched the Gadget Show this week and they reviewed the House of Marley Wireless Turntable.
Got very positive reviews, performance wise, ease of setup/use and aesthetics.
The Project T1 BT looks quite good with the bonus that you can bypass the built in phono stage/bluetooth stuff if you want to try it with an amp and passive speaker later on (when you get the bug....which you will)
Mate of mine has an Audio Technica (I think LP60XBT) which sounds really nice, she had it in her flat bluetoothing to one of those Bose sound dock things and the sound was great. Having now moved and more space she now has it wired into a little Denon mini hifi to some Q Acoustic speakers and the sound is as good as you'd ever want without going full audiophile nerd and budget. It's not a portable unit as such, you wouldn't want to stand it up behind the sofa when not using it, but it's compact and really adaptable in that it has bluetooth but also has phono and aux so you should be able to connect it to pretty much anything that plays audio
Didn't AT just re-release the soundburger?
they did Retro cool?
updated with bluetooth
Didn’t AT just re-release the soundburger?
I was about to mention that. It’s popped up several times on Flipboard, which caused raised eyebrows, I must admit. I never thought of them as anything more than a toy the first time around when vinyl was pretty cheap, but with a new release costing stupid amounts of money, I’d be very wary of playing anything other than cheap second-hand discs.
Weirdly IKEA now have a plastic disk spinning thang.
Don’t know whether it can do Bluetooth.
I used to have one of these...
If you are accepting the speakers will be crap and you'll need external ones why have you excluded separates?
A turntable on top of an amp isn't much bigger than an all in one deck.
Weirdly IKEA now have a plastic disk spinning thang.
Don’t know whether it can do Bluetooth
Nope, it's a very simple belt driven turntable.
Had a look at it in-store look at week, and it looks cool, but is made of really lightweight plastic, including the platter. I can't imagine it sounds particularly good.