Amazing look still waiting on the rest of the record player to arrive mine was missing parts. I contacted the company through Amazon they were extremely happy and fairly quick to respond. Sent photos and missing parts list and they said that they will send it and everything will be here shortly. Will update after I get to try it.

Great turntable! Easy to put together. East peasy. So excited!

We love our new turntable. Easy directions (I also watched YouTube video) with no issues. It's very sleek and pretty too! Sounds great!

After a long hiatus from the hobby, I decided to start collecting vinyl again. I used to have a big collection of vinyl but sold it all to help pay for my late wife's cancer treatments. Since then, I have been listening to streamed music. After discovering a treasure trove of vinyl at a local yard sale, and buying them all, I ordered a retrolife turntable here on amazon. It was pretty and had good sound, but there were a couple features on it I did not like. So I returned it and ordered this one. I feel like I made the right choice.

The Fluance RT81 is a great budget priced turntable. The sound is nice and bassy, and the system is elegantly designed, solid and perfect in its simplicity. There is no bluetooth, which is fine with me. I don't see the point of listening to vinyl on bluetooth speakers. Bluetooth does not have the bandwidth to transmit lossless high fidelity audio. You might as well listen to streaming mp3's if you're going to use bluetooth. But this unit does come with gold rca wires to hook the system up to your speakers. It has one single button to turn on the system and select your speed, and the turntable starts spinning as soon as you move the tonearm into position. What else do you need? Sometimes the simpler something is the better. I love it when a product just does what it's supposed to do, without a bunch of hassle and annoyance.

I'm not knowledgeable enough to review the sound quality, but if you want to know my layman's opinion here it is. I think it sounds good. I think it is a little too bassy, and the separation could be a little better, and the pops when the needle hits a speck of dust is a little loud, but it is good enough for me for the moment. I may upgrade to a better needle at some point in the future, but it is good. I just turned the bass down a little on my speakers and make sure my discs are as dust-free as possible before playing an album. Strangely, the much cheaper retrolife turntable sounded better to me, but for build quality and simplicity I would still pick the Fluance.

I am happy with my purchase, and I think that says it all. This is a beautiful, beautiful turntable, with a smoky gray lid and artful design and simplicity. Just turn the bass down a little and make sure your records are clean!

This is a great turntable. I'm coming from an atlp60 -> atlp3 and both of those had auto start auto stop problems that couldn't be fixed by the standard resetting per what their support people told me. This album doesn't have that nonsense, the auto stop just stops spinning the table not an auto swing the arm back which is great. It seems to be built
Sturdier and sounds solid. I don't have the money to go much past the cost of this table. If this thing lasts I'll be very happy. As of now im very happy. Only had it for a little bit. Worthwhile replacement.