What is The Best Portable Record Player

Whether you call them portable turntables, portable vinyl players or portable record players whatever. These little machines are a great deal of fun. With modern technology you can have all the nostalgic warm feeling that vinyl will give you with combined the latest technology.

The best vinyl record players are pretty tough mechanically; let’s face it they have to be if they are being toted around regularly. Unlike home turntables portables are rarely going to give audiophile high quality sound that you would expect from a high end turntable. But you know what, for the convenience the sacrifice is worth it because where you’ll be playing it having an audiophonically – (yep! made that one up on the fly!) perfect area is not going to be possible usually, so you’re probably not going to pick the difference.

These Small Record Players

Audiophiles will tell you that these little record players are not “proper” turntables. They will tell you the only way to enjoy your vinyl is to have an expensive turntable sitting at home with a set of expensive speakers that are correctly located in a room. Seeing as every person is individual I believe that there is many ways enjoy your music, one way is to have a turntable set up in a room.

It is so common these days’ people are accustomed to having their music with them all the time. A portable record player gives you the freedom to take your music anywhere and whenever you like. And although the speaker systems in these small portable record player is not that great with the connectivity that’s built in to many of them – no problem we can just plug in to a big “kickass set of speakers” and hey presto! Share your sound around.

In The Beginning The Best Portable Record Players

Most of us that have vinyl records will usually have started with a cheaper system or portable turntable. When we kinda get the feeling for how we like this “vinyl thing” we can move up or upgrade – I mean nobody – “well nobody I know” starts learning to drive in a new Ferrari – we all usually start with a car that’s older and or a bit cheaper until we find that we can upgrade to a better one when we’re ready and we can afford it.

I started out buying the equivalent of the So Fresh CDs on Vinyl and the

“sound alike” Albums that were available cheap, and then take them home to put on a portable record player that I had to keep under my bed as we had so little spare room in the caravan that we lived in.

When Is Enough Vinyl Really Enough.

Now I have thousands of vinyl records hundreds of CDS and a turntable that I could trade for a second hand car (we all have our vices). My point is that we all start somewhere on our journey into music appreciation and finding the best portable record player that suits our exact needs can be really important particularly if you’re on a budget.

Things like the type of connections that will suit your needs, if you are looking to connect to other systems like “a kickass speaker system” or to connect your phone and use your portable player as a music centre to play your digital music through. Maybe you are wanting to play your vinyl when others don’t want to listen to it (some others may not have the same appreciation for your music as you do) so – plug in  your  headphones, solves the problem – maybe keeps the peace as well!

All these decisions set your parameters about the specifications that you’ll need to budget for when purchasing your best portable record player. You may need Bluetooth. you’ll need to bear in mind that Bluetooth can degrade the quality of the signal but for the purposes of the application and where the music is likely to  be played that audio degradation is not likely to be significant enough to really consider as a problem. If you are going to be connecting to other amplifiers and speaker systems you may need to source an adapter to make your turntable line out compatible with the speakers that your player is plugging into. When using your portable turntable as a music centre there may adapters needed depending what make and model of phone you own. By the way you can do the same thing for media players like IPods and tablets that may have music stored on them.

Some Of the Best Portable Turntables

Some of the best vinyl record players are able to turn your Analogue vinyl into digital format. This is usually done through a computer and it will almost always require software to be installed on the computer so that the audio can be captured and converted to an appropriate usable format. I used to think that there was very little use for this kind of connection and application; after all you have the vinyl and the player why would turning it into a different format be of any use. But there are uses for this after all there are albums that I have that are quite rare I don’t want to degrade them anymore than I need to so, it’s not the same but it protects my investment by recording them to MP3.

Most of these portable units have speakers built in to them which just add to the convenience and usability it makes them truly portable somewhat like an MP3 player. Some will even take batteries that enable playing anywhere there is an even flat surface to put the player on drop on an LP and listen away. You can if you want to take your vinyl and play it in even the most remote locations on the planet imagine that – John Lennon playing Imagine in the most unimaginable places place in the world. And with Bluetooth connectivity although it may not work too well for you in really remote locations it can be a real bonus. If you haven’t got the time to go roaming around the planet it might be to a friends place in the city that might work for you!

Portable Vinyl Player

Portable is all about having you’re music with you wherever you are its seriously not serious about standards of excellence; it’s about now, being in the moment. Music has a strong influence over us it pulls up memories and feelings that can otherwise be left buried in the subconscious if we combine that with a location and some friends that make that feeling complete then why wouldn’t  you look for the best portable record player for your needs.