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Turntables

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A turntable plays your records, and what it does for you is the first thing to decide. Some do everything by themselves, some leave the arm to you; some have a phono stage built in and plug into powered speakers, some need a phono preamp or an amplifier that has one. We group them as decks, all-in-one players with speakers, and portable players. Look at the drive, how automatic it is, the speeds, the cartridge that comes with it and whether you can swap it later. Wow and flutter and rumble are shown with the standard the maker measured them to, because the same deck gives a figure about twice as high under a peak standard as under an RMS one, and we rank them only when the standards match.