Most of our top choices use aluminium platters for you to put your precious vinyl on, but there are options that use acrylic or a special, lightweight plastic instead. What are the best record players in 2022? Don‘t worry though, as we’ve laid out our expert guide to the best record players you need to buy to help you scratch and mix like Deadmau5 from the comfort of your armchair. You’ll need to have a working understanding of tonearms, direct drives and belt drives, plates and pre-amps, and that’s before we start firing up the traditionalists by stoking the Bluetooth vs analogue debate.

However, before you dip your toe into the vast waters of record-flipping, there are a few key things you should wrap your head around to get the most out of your music.

No matter whether you’re the proud owner of a healthy vinyl record collection or you’re looking to make a move away from the instant, on-demand nature of digital music streaming for a more manual hi-fi experience, there are plenty of high-end turntables for aspiring at-home DJs and music-lovers alike. Dropping a tonearm on your cherished records is the true way of the audiophile, and we won’t hear any arguments to contradict us. There will be naysayers who’ll tell you that digital streaming is the only way to listen to high-quality tunes, but we’re all for the current vinyl revival –we haven’t stopped listening to Metallica’s Master of Puppets on repeat, to be honest. The best record players unlock a whole new way to enjoy your music.

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