Electronics.Woot has
AmazonBasics Desktop Turntable Record Player w/ Built-in Speakers and Bluetooth (Natural Wood Finish) on sale for
$19.99.
Shipping is free for Amazon Prime Members (must login with your Amazon account and select a shipping address in order for Woot to apply free shipping) or is otherwise $6 per order.
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BaconCommando for sharing this deal
Features:
- 3-speed tabletop turntable for playing vinyl records; 33-1/3, 45, and 78 RPM speed settings; works with vinyl LP sizes 7-inch, 10-inch, and 12-inch
- Compatible with Bluetooth devices including smartphones tablets, PCs, laptops, and other MP3 players
- Premium sound quality with dynamic, built-in dual full range stereo speakers (3W each); automatic calibration via belt-driven drive system
- Diamond stylus needles; one assembled into unit, one spare; rubber foot pads for stability and shock absorption
- RCA output and headphone jack line-in and line-out; source input size 3.5 mm aux; Bluetooth 5.0 compatible with 33-foot range
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Well worth $20 AND YES I OWN THIS PRODUCT unlike others who are "expert audiophiles" who don't.
I really don't have the patience to play music via vinyl; I get how large vinyl album covers are collectable and the feel of loading actual physical media is enjoyable though.
Playing FLAC files via Plex or Plex Amp from my NAS is good enough for me. Guess I'm not one of the cool kids...
I'm one of those high end record player guys, like you said I like the collection aspect and the physical media, and it's fun to compare the way a record sounds vs the FLAC file (some masters lend themselves to vinyl).
I don't know why but I watched that whole video and learned a lot. So that people know, this is a ceramic needle, at 5g tracking force it would wear records faster but it's certainly not going to destroy them.
Still, I just don't see who this could possibly be for except kids who want something cheap and don't care if it breaks. It would be fun for a kid or somebody who just wanted to learn about how record players work but it's just not gonna be a good listening experience, like you may as well play music just directly through your phone speaker.
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And no, I'm not going to buy a $150 record player to listen to a $1 record. Frig off audiophiles.
By the mid 90s sales were down to just over ten million for all vinyl, and full length LPs only sold about 1 million. EPs about 10 million.
EPs dominated the vinyl market until the mid 2000s. It took early digital to kill the EP market and it dropped to less than a couple hounded thousand units per year. For the first time since 1990ish LPs sold more than EPs. But combined that was less than a million units per year in the mid 2000s.
EPs actually haven't recovered at all. Still exclusively dominated by underground musicians and techno singles.
But since that bottom LP sales have grown by about 15 to 25 percent every year. And they basically doubled in 2020 and 2021 when major label artists started releasing vinyl. Went from 20 million to over 40 million in one year, with nearly 1 in 3 people saying they have or are planning on buying vinyl. And 2023 is expected to rise by at least another 20 percent.
So while it's true Vinyl records only make up about 5% of music sales, if you look at actual purchases of albums or singles, whether digital or physical, 1 in 3 are now vinyl. And CDs are declining and actually expected go below cassettes.
So streaming is king, and digital purchases basically stagnant and dominated by independent artists on sites like bandcamp.
Its hard to say they're niche when 50 million records are will be sold in the US this year. Even if that is only 10% of their peak.
Side note: global sales bottomed out at about 3 million per year in the 2000s. Just USA sales will be about 20 times higher within a year.
And just the latest taylor swift album has sold about 2 million vinyl copies and is expected to pass 2005 global vinyl sales by 2025.
I'm one of those high end record player guys, like you said I like the collection aspect and the physical media, and it's fun to compare the way a record sounds vs the FLAC file (some masters lend themselves to vinyl).
I don't know why but I watched that whole video and learned a lot. So that people know, this is a ceramic needle, at 5g tracking force it would wear records faster but it's certainly not going to destroy them.
Still, I just don't see who this could possibly be for except kids who want something cheap and don't care if it breaks. It would be fun for a kid or somebody who just wanted to learn about how record players work but it's just not gonna be a good listening experience, like you may as well play music just directly through your phone speaker.
I don't want to spend a small fortune on equipment that I will hardly use. I just want the option of playing a record occasionally for testing purposes or for curiosity if I stumble on the odd vinyl at Goodwill or yard sale. I even bought a cheapo cassette player for this purpose as well and it has served me well when I rarely needed it.
Regarding the review [youtube.com]; it's what convinced me that this $20 record player would be ideal for me and my cheap basterd ways. After he played a $1k record on it and said basically the turntable was acceptable and a good deal at $33 I knew I found the cheap turntable of my stingy dreams.
Overall, I get the importance of buying a decent turntable if you are going to play records frequently. I also understand and empathize with people that enjoy the physical feel of playing vinyl; making listening to music an experience and a soothing meditative ritual.
IMO FLAC files are for listining and vinyl is for collecting but to each their own. (I apply this philosophy when collecting vintage video games as well. I collect and preserve the physical copies and play the games via emulation). I just don't like how many vinyl "audiophiles" act like elitist jerks though
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