I've got a couple of records, Mountains on the Wall, these are by Mountains, great albums
you've got to see them. And I've also bought another one which is Lives at the Ritz, and
I actually attended this concert, which is why I've got the record, but I've never played
any of them because I don't have a record player. And that was until I was asked if
I would like to review one. So, today we're going to go to the Gold School and check out
a new vinyl record player. So we have two speakers, turntable, power, and a bag of bits
and cables. So around the back you've got two sets of speaker out, power, you've got
a force flexor, so I know what I'm on. You've got the inputs, power in, and interestingly
here this is a USB PC input. That allows you to use this software to convert your records
into digital files, and you can see the cables have manual and little bag of bits that this
comes with. It has a backlit volume remote, and buttons to control record speed, the mode
and play, pause when using Bluetooth. So this player, I have a slightly muted desk
as it started to rotate round, it started to make a floating noise. Now it turns out
that in the record, bag of bits is a small ball-band, and you're supposed to add that
in to the record player. It comes in the bag, I've just stopped it getting lost, and
it might fall out. And that lifts the turntable up enough that it stops scraping. And as soon
as I've done that, put the record on, no problem at all. Plays brilliantly. I can't play this
for you now, though, because I've had permission to play this music online. But if you don't
have a big record collection, I only really have this one and the ones on my wall, and I'm not going to take those down, you might think, well, is this worth investing in? And
maybe you're going to build up your vinyl collection, maybe you've already got a vinyl
collection, but don't worry either way, because this has Bluetooth on board as well. So you
can pair it with your phone, as I've done, and then just hit play, and there you go
music comes out. So a couple of things about this, I would say, these speakers are pretty
muted. You can see they're only a small size, and put the settings out at a decent volume
The hop doesn't have a stop-close mechanism, so be careful that might slide short. When
you want to play the record, you're going to have to go old school and lift it and put
it down. I know some decks you should have to put it into automatically. When it gets
to the end of the record, it will just stop automatically, but it won't reset the needle
back into the pressing position. You might want to consider doing this as well, if Bluetooth
paired this with a device like an Echo Dot, and that way you've got a full smart system
that will have access to Spotify and have voice control. The one thing to note is there's
no way of adjusting the treble or bass or that, there's no equaliser on board, but the
speakers do sound very good, actually. Considering they're a small size, they go up to a, if
you're getting high volume, you could easily lower your latency, please. So that, this is about 50%. Now I know I'm wearing a microphone, but I'm sure you can
probably still hear this. I'm going to turn it up a bit louder. I'm going to shout over
it. There we go. That's about 75% volume. It's quite loud in your ear. I don't want
to praise and hail you for that, because it is really loud. The speakers are brilliant
They're very loud speakers, if you need them to be, but they can also go right down. So
after interviewing and testing this, I like the fact that it's got Bluetooth on board, which opens up your options for playing different types of music. It was easy to get used to
It's very well balanced, so you don't have any problems. And the fact that it comes with
all the speakers means you can get set up very quickly and just put it in place and
you're done. So thank you to the manufacturer for sending me this product to review. I will
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