Records & speakers
Listen closely.
Listening well at home is less about spending and more about matching parts. These guides help you build a setup that suits the room you have.
Buying guides
The Best Turntables for Beginners
A first turntable should have adjustable tracking force, a replaceable cartridge, and ideally a built-in preamp — and it should never be a suitcase player.
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The Best Record Players With Speakers
"With speakers" covers two very different products: a turntable bundled with its own separate powered speakers, and a true single-box all-in-one.
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The Best Bluetooth Record Players
Nearly every Bluetooth turntable transmits audio out to a speaker or headphones — none of the picks below let a phone stream music into them.
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