Audio-Technica LP120XUSBSV Manual Direct-Drive Turntable (Analogue & USB) Silver

Wanted a decent turntable for my vinyl collection. Couldnt be happier. Looks and sounds fantastic. Sturdy, smart and beautiful. And very reasonable price

I like my music a lot. Not quite to nerd level but pretty intense nonetheless! I did a fair bit of research before buying this turntable. I did my online research and asked music loving friends what turntables they had. A recurring answer was "I've got an Audio Technica." These were people whose opinions I trusted. I've bought the LP120 XUSB in black. I've had it for about two weeks and I absolutely love it. The fact that is has a pre-amp built in is a big plus. It means that you don't have to buy more expensive kit to play your records. I connected my turntable up to my old midi-hifi, which is just a CD player with AM/FM tuner with speakers. The red and white cables just plug into the turntable sockets and that's the connection sorted! The stylus is simple to affix, it just screws into the needle arm. Balancing the tone arm is the hardest of the tasks required to set it up. It's still simple to do though, especially if you follow the Audio Technica video for this process which is on YouTube. The whole body of the unit is metal and the turntable is a weighty piece of steel. The unit is well made and is of good quality. Playing records is simple. You just line up the needle over the grooves, lower the arm and away you go. The tone arm is manual and not automatic, meaning at the end of the record you need to return the tone arm to its' rest yourself. The sound quality obviously depends on the quality of your speakers. Mine are reasonably average and not at all specialist. However, the sound is immense! The tones are rich, the bass is deep and the overall sound is crisp. There is barely any vinyl crackle. I've converted a couple of albums to mp3 using the supplied USB cable. It is very simple. I am using a Mac with GarageBand as the platform that I record to. (Audacity is also a perfectly good platform to use too.) The quality of the recordings is excellent and now, albums that I've had for years that I only had on record, can be listened to in my car! Don't hesitate if you are thinking of buying this turntable. It is a lot of quality for the price and it compares favourably with more expensive turntables with similar features.

Not particularly challenging to assemble and balance the tonearm. Getting the 3-pin adapter on the power lead was more problematic. Levelling the turntable took a while but was worth doing right. My first direct drive and Bluetooth turntable, it connects automatically to Bluetooth speakers across the room. Sound reproduction is excellent. I did the right thing, avoiding the cheaper option of an all-in-one player. The extra quality from this turntable is worth the extra expense.

A real piece of quality from getting it out of the box to the set only tricky part was getting the tone arm level when you crack that your flying. Starting with the weight of the turntable you know it ain’t cheap good sturdy heavy piece of quality even the head shell looks expensive all the buttons are big and bold so you know what your operating what I like most is when using the tonearm lifter after your ready to lower it on to the vinyl it slowly drops nice and easy no big heavy drop and its a great sound through a Panasonic mini Hifi it looks great and while it seems a bit expensive believe me it’s pure quality and class makes every penny spent on it worth while well pleased it hasn’t cooled since it was set up 10 out of 10.

Amazing turntable! The sound is incredible, we've also purchased the speakers from the same Audio Technica and the sound is pristine. It also looks great and it's very solid.

I am really pleased with this stereo player, however I had some issues as didn't realise initially that Bluetooth wouldn't connect to my phone without speakers connected. However, set up was straightforward apart from that and everything is now working great with excellent sound quality from my vinyl and my Bluetooth playback would recommend this product but would be good if the instructions made the Bluetooth connection a little clearer.

Works extremely well, excellent product. And also very easy to use for me as a first timer! Would highly recommend

Superb quality turnable at a good price for the quality of output. Recommend getting the Audio-Technica speakers, the built in pre-amp works well with these and gives a lovely bass rich sound. No tinniness here. Busy rebuying all my old vinyl back now from the 70s and 80s to enjoy all over again. Theres something ethereal about listening to music from a vinyl turnable, and this ticks ALL the boxes

Easy to setup, solid quality, very nice sound

... but I love it to bits. To buy such an expensive, big eighties looking Turntable was not on my shortlist but after multiple bad experiences with other brands like Projekt and Dual I pulled the trigger and bought one for €235, I think a very good deal when I see the prices abroad. Everything functions perfect. What I like the most is the Bluetooth for my headphones so I can move freely. Almost completely made of plastic the size and weight gives it a feel of Premium Quality. Nice touch are the suction cup feet and light. The anti skating does its job wonderfully, so no distortions near the end of the record. Although I have it connected to a 20 year old Panasonic Home Cinema Set the pre-amp delivers more than average sound. The lift feels a bit cheap but the needle never skipped putting it on. Because it is a DJ device it has no automatic stop, so it keeps turning with the needle on the record. And for those who want to digitize I urge you not to go with the cheap usb ones, the sound will be dreadfull. Buy a TT with a good sound output like this one and you will get quality mp3 recordings. *Update 15 months later* It still runs fantastic. I am not a permanent listener I must say, there are weeks that I do not touch it. But when I do it keeps a joy to own this sweet sounding device. I listen to it through my cheap Sony WH-CH510 bluetooth headphones or my SMSL SA-50 amp connected to 2 KEF speakers.

Giradischi di buona qualità (chiariamo: non è un Thorens da 3.000 euro, ma penso sarebbe stupido pretenderlo), ma costruito decisamente bene soprattutto se confrontato con prodotti di altre marche su questa fascia di prezzo. La connessione bluetooth è impeccabile, e mantiene comunque ad un ottimo livello la qualità di ascolto (giusto una gamma alta un filo indietro e qualcosina in meno come intellegibilità della gamma media, ma a mio parere davvero una buona prestazione). E comunque, per chi preferisse prestazioni migliori alla comodità del bluetooth, ci sono le opzioni per la connessione cablata... Facile l'installazione, testina in dotazione più che onesta, il plus della porta USB per la connessione al PC. Trasmissione -sulla carta- affidabile, vista l'assenza della cinghia, ma imho non adatta all'utilizzo "DJ", il motore non sembra potentissimo; ma, di nuovo, personalmente non pretendo niente del genere su questa fascia di prezzo, tantomeno da un apparecchio che offre già tanto in altri ambiti. In sintesi, prodotto concreto e convincente, che offre una prestazione solida a tutto tondo, con un ottimo rapporto qualità/prezzo.

R.A.S Très bonne platine,que du positif et la connexion Bluetooth est nickel ! Je recommande a 100%.

Schnell und sorgfältig mit amazon geliefert, Preis unschlagbar! Das Gerät ist super verpackt und sehr einfach zu montieren. Einstellung Auflagegewicht unt anti-Skating einfach. Die Installation mit bluetooth funktioniert perfekt mit meiner Teufel Cinebar Lux. Am Klang gibt es nichts auszusetzen. Der Tonabnehmer AT-VM95E (grün) klingt ausgewogen und ist eigentlich ausreichend. Vielleicht kaufe ich mir noch ein weiteres Headshell aus der VM95-Serie z. B. AT-VM95EN/H (orange) oder AT-VM95ML/H (rot). Mal sehn'... Insgesamt bin ich mit dem Gerät sehr zufrieden und kan es besten Gewissens weiter empfehlen!