Customer Ratings & Reviews

Amazing turntable. Beautiful sound and worth the price of your into vinyl.

The turntable is a very decent one with some great things to offer. Installing it was very easy. I love the slip off cover to set aside when in play. Speed adjustment is very easy to control with the dots and light on the platter. Mine is wired to my receiver so I don’t use the Bluetooth function. Overall I feel it’s worth the money paid.

Excellent buy! Love the features and easy set up. Waited a long time to buy a turntable and this one did not disappoint.

Great Turntable, It connects to Bluetooth super fast.

Love this LP player. The weights on the arm keep it from skipping.

Buy it. Enough said. This text to satisfy character requirements.

Awesome experience..good quality Finally I can listen to all my records..

Better than the lpx60 has counterweight and usb feature comes in handy paired with Klipsch r40pm and r100 sw and it sounds great!

This is my very first turntable and it feels very premium. I love the pitch changing feature because sometimes I like to slow it down and listen to a lower pitch version of a song. I also love the glass cover so I can see my records spinning. The only thing I did not understand was the weight but I realized I put on the weight adjuster on backwards.

Solid device, completely happy with it thus far...

This is a great item and features full frequency pickup on the stylus that is included with the package. Perfect for any audio application. For my use, I am using this turntable to cut records with and have it sitting under a custom built record cutting lathe.

Best vinyl player. Love the look of it and how smooth it plays

Awesome turntable! Has bluetooth connection and sounds great with my Soundbar.

This is the best I have ever had this is an upgrade for me

This to me is the best record player for the money.

So nice to have a solid and sturdy turntable again.

Plays my old vinyl from the sixties and seventies so beautifully. Rich deep tones you can hear so well coming from the bass guitar, vocals and other instruments. I would give this a five out of five if the price was a bit lower and also the acrylic lid scratches very very easily.

First, let me say that I am not a DJ. I was just looking for a quality turntable under $300.00, one that was not totally entry level, and one that was not audiophile quality in the 4-digit price range. There is a lot that I like about this Audio-Technica - ATLP120XBT and a few things that I do not like. All in all, I think its keeper though I am settling a little on the features, it hits the target on my price range. Unlike the Denon DP300F, the Audio-Technica - ATLP120XBT is a fully manual turntable. There is no auto stop feature or auto return feature. So, when your needle gets to the end of the album, it’s just going to bump against the paper album ring of da thump, da thump, da thump. Not a problem if you are a DJ type and you are standing over your turntable/s and picking up the needle. But for me, I like roaming around the house while listening to my LPs which usually means, I am not there to pick up the needle and avoid hearing da thump da thump da thump. Even with that said, some auto stop turntables that I have read up on will keep spinning several times until they have realized the end has been reached and the auto stop kicks in. So if you can’t live with the da thump sound, you are going to want at least a semi-automatic turntable that returns the tonearm back to its holder, which means you don’t want this turntable. I am not exactly sure what potential harm can be caused to the stylus, but the sound just drives me nuts. Another thing I am not crazy about with this turntable is the dust cover and/or dust cover hinges. While the plinth of this turntable seems heavy and solid enough, the dust cover seems too light. So, I find opening the dust cover with one hand creates enough uneven lifting force to where the cover wants to come off the hinge. Either the dust cover needs to be heavier and/or the hinges need to fit the cover a bit tighter to keep the cover from wanting to come off. I also did not like the light feeling felt platter mat on this Audio Technica turntable, the Denon had a heavy rubber platter mat. And now for some good stuff. The Audio-Technica has both a built-in preamp and Bluetooth connectivity for connecting wireless to Bluetooth speakers. I find that the preamp output is sufficient to generate good volume and drive the bass and midrange well enough on my soundbar without any noticeable distortion even at higher volume settings on my soundbar. It also has USB output along with a USB cable so you can connect the turntable to a computer and digitize your records if you like. The back of this turntable has female RCA connectors as opposed to the cable being internally connected to the turntable on one end and having male RCA connectors on the other end. So, if your RCA cable fails, you can just replace the cable with a new male to male RCA cable. Turntables like the Denon DP300F that have the RCA output cable attached to the inside of the unit will probably require servicing if the internal connection is faulty or ends up failing, which is exactly what happened to me. Gently moving the cable where it came out of the Denon unit would cause the left channel to cut out, which I discovered when I noticed that I wasn’t getting left channel sound coming through my speaker system. When I took the Denon DP300F back to Best Buy, I tried to exchange it for another Denon DP300F, hoping the cable issue and low preamp output was just bad luck. They did not have another Denon unit in stock so I just exchanged for the Audio Technica. The plinth of the Audio-Technica - ATLP120XBT has a convenient indentation to hold the 45rpm record adapter. Some people may not like the aesthetic of the indentation, but I do not mind it because my 45 adapter is always right there, which to me is a good trade off. The tone arm holder has a lock that you can employ to keep the tone arm from flying around if you accidently bump it while changing a record. The plinth also has a nifty target light that you can point right at your needle which makes seeing the beginning of each album track line easier to see in low light conditions so you can drop the needle right where you want it. This is also a direct drive turntable as opposed to a belt drive turntable, so I am settling here as well. It is said that while you get less precise speed with a belt drive, you get more motor noise with a direct drive in this price range. I don’t listen to my records using headphones and I have yet to hear any motor noise or distortion while a song is playing so I don’t think sound quality is going to be a factor for me. I imagine that higher end turntables attempt to overcome this problem with motor shielding and using dampening materials. But, a belt drive just seems more intriguing to me, having the platter spun by a belt on a pully instead of directly by gears on a machine. To me, it is like the turntable is more of an instrument with a belt instead of just being a machine. A belt drive is kind of like strings being part of a guitar, and I really like that. Stretching the belt over the pully during first time setup also feels like bringing the turntable to life. So, belt vs direct drive all boils down to a matter of preference and consideration of what is more important to you. For me, I wanted to bring my records back to life asap without spending over $300. All in all, the Audio Technica ATLP120XBT is a solid turntable in this price range. If it had at least semiautomatic functionality and a heavier or more secure feeling dust cover, it would be 5 stars in my book, not taking into consideration my preference for a belt drive motor.

After trying to simplify a complex home theater/stereo system with all of its resulting cables and mess, I thought maybe it would be a good time to check out Bluetooth turntables. The audio aficionado in me shudders at the thought of taking an analog medium, vinyl, and converting it to digital while beaming it via Bluetooth to a receiver. Oh the humanity! At the same time, I'd like to put my turntable somewhere more convenient for use, rather than having to place it near enough to my home theater/stereo for cabling purposes. I picked up the Sony PS-LX310BT a few days ago and connected it to my system via Bluetooth. My system consists of a Marantz SR6014 receiver and Bowers and Wilkins 600 series speakers. It was as I feared, via a Bluetooth connection from the Sony to the Marantz, sound from my vinyl collection was subdued and MP3-ish at best. The sound from the Sony via Bluetooth was livable, but nothing compared to a cabled connection or the other turntable in my house, a Pioneer PLX-1000 with an Ortofon Blue cartridge mounted. Granted, the Pioneer/Ortofon combo cost nearly $1400, so it best sound fantastic. I sadly packaged the Sony up for return. But then, to my amazement, I was skimming the Best Buy website and saw the Audio Technica AT-LP120XBT. It was just like an AT-LP120X, but with Bluetooth. My son owns a 120X, and it is a dang good table with the price. Plus, the cart can be upgraded to something nicer. I immediately ordered a 120BT, picked it up and placed it in my system. It was a super-easy setup. Get everything out of the box, mount the headshell with the cartridge already on it in the mount, set the platter, break out my scale and set the tracking force at 1.8, and go through the Bluetooth syncing process. The result? Amazing sound. Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged on 180-gram vinyl sounds heavenly. Nice lower bass, plenty of thump, and a sweet, clear high-end that surprised me. Even with the factory cart (which is upgradeable), this thing sounds like a champ. I could not be more surprised. I've run several other pieces of vinyl through the 120XBT and found all of them sound excellent. Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream was full and warm, with just the right amount of upper level detail to make it exciting but not fatiguing. Bass is defined, not bloated. Horns on Miles Davis' Essentials album are front and center and realistic. The factory cartridge tracks extremely well. I've noticed no inner groove distortions even on some of my more challenging records. I am so happy to have found the AT-LP120XBT. It will allow me to place my turntable in a more convenient place, connect it to my nice home theater/stereo, and also give me the ability to connect my headphones. What a great sounding piece of wireless equipment! Highly recommended for the additional sound quality it provides over slightly lesser-priced alternatives.

As an audiophile (2 channel) snob, I was skeptical to buy this even for my kitchen set-up (I planned to purchase a more expensive Rega Planar 2) but the Cherry Hill, NJ Best Buy's inventory of turntables was decimated. I called Mt. Laurel, NJ (my preferred store) and the inventory was also back-ordered. Since I needed a turntable quickly, I figured for $300 I wasn't expecting hi fidelity. I was definitely surprised when I plugged this into my system: the stock AT-VM95E cartridge sounded clean and crisp, the turntable felt substantial (notwithstanding its plastic shell) and in the end, I think I got a great value. I prefer belt-driven tables, but the Audio-Technica direct drive is quiet and holds its speed. Set-up was a cinch too, though I would recommend newbies to download the full PDF manual from the AT website (it's not included in the box) to ensure that the anti-skate and the tone arm weight are properly calibrated. As a final test, I plugged the AT into my McIntosh system and swapped out the At-95E cartridge with a Ortofon Blue I had laying around and this table, while it won't win any beauty contests, delivers a lot of punch for the price. I should note also that I used a Schiit Mani pre-amp in lieu of the on-board pre-amp and they may have cleaned up the sound as well. Great starter and/or step-up table.