Turntables & Vinyl

Vinyl pressing quality is the difference between a record that sounds quiet, centred and stable, and one that makes you wonder if your turntable has developed a personality disorder. A…

Belt-drive vs direct-drive turntables is really a choice between isolation and control. For most UK living rooms, a good belt-drive deck is the calmer, better-value buy; for DJ use, pitch…

Vinyl is not automatically better than digital. The honest answer is that digital is cleaner, cheaper and more accurate for most people, while vinyl can feel more involving when the…

Opening your first vinyl setup or considering an upgrade? You’ve probably come across the terms “record player” and “turntable” used interchangeably. While both spin vinyl records, the record player vs…

You pull out a record you know well, drop the arm, and the first chorus sounds fuzzy in a way it never used to. Maybe the right channel is spitting…

Your record collection has outgrown the Ikea Kallax it started in. LPs are double-stacked, some are leaning at angles that would make a record shop owner wince, and the overflow…

You’ve been buying vinyl for months — maybe years — and playing it through a mate’s system or a cheap all-in-one from Argos that skips every time someone walks past.…

You’ve inherited a box of your parents’ records, or you’ve started picking up vinyl at charity shops, or you just want to hear what everyone’s talking about when they say…

You’ve inherited a box of your parents’ vinyl — Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, Bowie — and you want to play them without buying a separates hi-fi system that costs more…

You’ve just set up your first turntable, the stylus drops onto the record, and the sound fills the room in a way that Spotify never quite manages. Now you need…