House of Marley Turntable Dust Cover - Recycled Plastic Record Player Cover, Compatible with Stir It Up and Simmer Down Vinyl Players, Home Turntables for Vinyl Records Dirt Protection, Transparent

I absolutely love this record player. Simple and to the point. I highly recommend this!

I had another turntable setup in my office which always disappointed me. I saw this on a warehouse deal for £72 and thought I'd give it a go. At that price it is incredible, the internal phono stage seems to be pretty decent.I think at RRP of £200 I may not be quite as satisfied, it looks amazing and has some useful features, like auto stop at the end of an album. It also has a replaceable cartridge which is a fairly cheap upgrade, although the supplied cartridge is not to bad.It also looks fantastic and generally feels well made.On the downside, the anti-skate isn't the greatest and I seem to need to unplug it between uses. At full price I think there would be better alternatives at around the same price or slightly more.

I bought this because I wanted something fun that I could move around. It looks great. It feels solidly built and for the price it's clearly been thoughtfully designed to pack as much quality and value as possible. For someone looking for a beginner turntable this might be a good option as long as you know how to balance and set up a counterweight.The cartridge is a solid choice, entry-level, but well respected. Certainly better than the ceramic options on many turntables at this price point. It sounds good... depending on what you are listening to.However there are some caveats, which I'll mention in case they matter to you.1. Wow (RMS) ie. the fluctuation in the platter's rotation speed. For me it was very audible on anything with sustained notes (think Vienna by Ultravox). Even after buying a platter weight it was still quite apparent. You many not notice, some are more sensitive to it than others and I one of them apparently. In various tests this varied between 0.26-0.36. In contrast an old and long neglected Aiwa from an old midi system measured 0.12-0.16. Marley have done their best to smooth things out with a speed sensor, but I suspect the quality of motor used here and in many other decks aren't as good as those used in previous decades. But you may not notice or mind, so feel free to ignore this.2. Anti-skate - this does not work like on other turntables I know of, where you would match it to the tracking force (how hard the stylus presses down on the record). If you read the reviews you'll see many comments on problems with it, but that's because they're expecting it to work like normal anti-skate. For this turntable they suggest turning it to zero and, IF you get skipping towards the end of the side, gradually increase it. I had the skipping problem and the 'anti-skate' does fix that, but it does not reduce the centripetal (things get pulled inwards, as opposed to centrifugal where things get pushed outwards) force for barely anything more than the runout track. I don't believe it was a fault in this unit as another I tried did the same thing. The design seems to be working as intended, just not like most people would expect.I like so much about this turntable and I really wanted to be able to justify keeping it. But in the end I couldn't. So close to awesome, but falls short. But you may love it.

Not having used a record player for about 30 years and after reading some reviews I thought I had made a big mistake with talk of balancing the tone arm and setting the tracking force which was all new to me. In reality it took about half a minute of fiddling with the weight on the arm (leaving the tracking at zero) and my old records play complete without any skips. Ive paired it with the House of Marley Get Together Bluetooth Speaker and it sounds great and I think even better than my high end separates from back in the day . The bluetooth connection initially took some time, but after initial set up pairing is now almost instant. I got both items in Warehouse deals which cut the total price in half and both turntable and speaker appear brand new in original packaging. Really stylish looking equipment. Very happy and recommended.

Only have this a few months and an issue with the platter has resulted in hundreds of pounds of vinyl being destroyed, I started noticing it was destroying the first track on a lot of records and in some cases the whole album. No refund nor replacement offered. Absolutely disgusted. Avoid like the plague.

I bought this primarily to use the USB output to digitize my records. It does so easily, but also plays back superbly via the Line Output plugged into the AUX input of my PC speakers.The quality is easily as good as any Hi-Fi separates I have owned in the past.The build quality is superb, and it looks amazing too!All this for just over£100 - outstanding value.