All my husband wants for his 40th is to finally have a record player. I've thoroughly consulted Wirecutter, but we have some snowflakey factors that are making it hard to figure out what our setup should be. Details below the fold.
The biggest complicating factor for us is where to put the damned thing. Our living room would be ideal, but the most obvious place to put it would be our built in shelves, but they're only 28cm deep, so probably wouldn't accommodate a standard turntable. I'm assuming it would be, uhm, bad news if the turntable jutted out over the shelf by a few centimetres. I'm reluctant to buy a sideboard or similar, because we have a very active and grabby toddler, plus I don't want our living room to get too cluttered with furniture (we live in a London flat for reference).
We have shelves in our office, immediately next door, that would be perfect. In an ideal world, we'd set up the turntable (and amp? do we need an amp? I find amps so confusing) and output the sound to either bluetooth or wireless speakers in the living room. Is this a terrible idea? If we do go this route, should we opt for bluetooth or wireless speakers? I hate hate hate the Sonos app but I could learn to live with it. Ideally, we'd also invest in speakers that work with the record player, but would also have Bluetooth so we could stream from our phones and computers.
We are NOT audiophiles. We're millennials who are used to streaming everything through Spotify, but my husband loves music, loves discovering new music, and already has quite a few records.
This is legitimately doing my head in, so I'll greatly appreciate any advice! |
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