Victrola V1 Music System – with Built-in Record Player, Stereo Soundbar, Powered Wireless 6.5" Subwoofer and 5.0 Bluetooth Streaming, Supports 33-1/3 and 45 RPM Vinyl Records (Espresso)

I needed an upgraded record player. And after long research this one was the winner. Easy to assemble and sounds incredible! Just had to turn the anti skate knob up a little bit. But this is exactly what i was looking for and then some! Definitely worth the money, and it just looks so perfect on my entertainment center

have had this for 2 years with no issues; great sound; playing vinyl is like a blast from the past

We have collected a large collection of records but had nothing to play it with. So we decided to splurge a bit and go with a well-respected brand in the record player industry. We were so excited to get this record player, until we got it. The box showed up damaged, the record player was wrapped like it was factory new but had CLEARLY been used before as there was damage in the wood as well as a knick in the dial. I was willing to look past ALL of that if it sounded good - which it did! But, the belt or gear that turns it was shot and it played everything about 2-3 seconds slower than it should be. Honestly we were so frustrated that after spending this much on a record player we felt like we go screwed over. We ended up getting a $200 one and the sad part is - it's infinitely better. Avoid buying this product.

This is my first time to have anything from Victrola and I am quite impressed. Just the weight of the box at delivery gives you the first, quick impression there is something very good inside.Set-up was easy, even for an old geezer like me. The sound quality is great, not the best I have ever heard in my 74 years, but certainly very high among all the sound systems I've owned or heard over the years. In short, no complaints and quite satisfied with the sound quality. Appearance is awesome and build quality is exceptional for this price range.I've been without a turntable for the last 16 years and am loving being able to play my LPs again.Bottom line.......get one!

Better than expected and love my Bluetooth music from my phone to speakers. Really nice turn table for old albums.

Was hoping for a decent product for the price, but, no. Speakers are excellent for the size but the turntable slows down after 10 to 15 minutes of use. I made sure the belt is properly installed, checked that the tone are is properly balanced. So, stuck with a useless turntable. Would return the turntable and keep the speakers if that were an option.

For starters, I want to mention that you CAN turn off the built in preamp on this turntable, contrary to another review here. There is a switch on the back for "Line/Phono". That's what that is for. This player also DOES auto-stop (but not return). Key points because they contradict some other info here, read on if you want to know more...First, a little background. I have two pretty nice turntables in my living room. Nothing super fancy or expensive, but nice enough and I have good (yet affordable) cartridges on them. I have a pretty sizeable record collection (around 2000?). I take my music seriously, but not so seriously that I geek out on it and spend thousands of dollars to make stuff sound 5% better. Nothing against die-hard audiophiles. I get it, it's just not my thing. I like a nice piece of gear here and there, but I'd rather spend my money on more records. That said, if someone wants to get into vinyl and doesn't have a whole lot of money to spend on it, I'm not about to tell them they can't have something good-sounding and functional at a decent price. If they have $250 to spend though, I probably wouldn't recommend this player. Read on...As a Vine reviewer, I've had the opportunity to audition quite a few "cheap" turntables. You know the ones. They all have the awful ceramic cartridge with the telltale red stylus, most have terrible built-in speakers and a ridiculous plastic 7" platter, and the quality control is just non-existent - I would guess I've had a 30-40% fail rate straight out of the box with this breed of players and had to exchange them for various reasons. For the record, none of these were Victrola branded, but I know a lot of their entry level players are very similar and I'm pretty sure a lot of these parts all trace back to the same manufacturer. But you know what? For what these players are, they DO play records and you can get them pretty cheap. I use them on my patio (with an amp and speakers) and some of them have been quite good, for what they are. You just have to have realistic expectations. Break them out when you have unruly company (or kids running around), or take them with you to a party. Spin some records and have fun and if something happens to the turntable, you're not out much.The Victrola T1 was the first turntable I received for review that was something better, albeit for 2-3 times the price of these other players. It has some things definitely going for it: MAGNETIC cartridge, adjustable tonearm weight and anti-skate, and it looks great. After getting it set up, I literally swapped it in place of a ceramic cartridge turntable and swapped the same record over to the Victrola and the sound difference was VERY noticeable immediately. The Victrola cartridge/stylus do not sound bad at all. It kind of goes downhill from there though...For starters, after using the turntable for a day or two, I felt like it was playing slow. Now keep in mind, I've been using a lot of low-grade iffy-quality turntables on my covered patio for several months and only once did I feel the need to check the platter speed (which was so far off I could tell just by watching it, it was spinning REALLY fast). My living room players both have speed-checking strobes and adjustable speed, so I watch/adjust them as needed, but for playing scratchy old vinyl outdoors, I'm NOT that picky. This one just didn't sound right though, no matter what I was playing, so I finally checked the speed (with a phone app) and sure enough, it was spinning about 30 rpm and that IS enough to be noticeable. The 45RPM speed was slow as well. On the cheaper players, being just a little slow, I probably would have let it slide, or torn into it looking for an adjustment, but this was supposed to be something better. So I requested a replacement, thinking it was just a little slip in quality control.The replacement arrived soon after (Amazon is great that way). Before even doing the full set-up, I checked the platter speed - well over 40rpm at 33 and almost 60rpm at 45! Total manufacturer fail and way worse than the first one, and yes I checked with the platter mat and a record in place - although I WILL say that the T1 does HOLD its speed quite well and is very consistent in that respect, it also spins up very quickly.So since Victrola couldn't send me a turntable that would spin the right speed, I adjusted it myself on the first one before sending it back, then adjusted the second one and kept it. I really wanted to like this turntable but it needed to spin the right speed! Don't tell anyone I told you, but there are adjustment screws for the motor accessible from the bottom of the plinth. One of them requires punching a hole in a label or taking the bottom cover off. One adjusts the 45rpm and the other the 33 1/3. They work in reverse - clockwise slows the speed down. There is another adjustment hole on the bottom that I believe is for the anti-skate, or maybe the cue lever damping. I didn't touch that one. They won't tell you any of this in the manual, but if they don't get the speed right, you CAN do it yourself - I got both of mine set dead-on with a lot of trial and error.Speed issues aside, this turntable has other problems. The cartridge/stylus sound good, but the stylus is not replaceable. When it wears out, you have to replace the whole cartridge. Victrola raves about their VPC-190 cartridge but I have not found any source to obtain a replacement, including Victrola's website. The good news is this appears to take a standard 1/2" spacing cartridge, so you can replace it with a different one, with a replaceable stylus. This doesn't have a removeable headshell, so to replace the cartridge will require removing the screws and reinstalling on the tonearm in place. Also, you can't keep extra cartridges around, mounted on a headshell ready to swap at will. Replacing would require aligning the cartridge as well. I did not check the cartridge alignment out of the box, but considering the speed issues, I probably should have...Next up, the cue lever. I'd never buy a turntable without one. Even though they can be a disappointment, I'd rather have a bad clunky one than none at all. This one is obviously fluid damped, because it's affected by temperature. As I said, I've been using this on my covered patio. One particularly cool morning (still over 60 degrees I think), I started the platter spinning, moved the tonearm into position, dropped the cue lever and walked away. Some time went by and I realized that the record never started playing. The cartridge was still hanging above the record, I had to press the lifting platform down by hand. In warmer temperatures, it still lowers very slowly. If the record has a slight warp, the stylus will actually skip on/off the record for a few revolutions as it lowers, and this is in temperatures you might see inside the house. Now that we're seeing 90+ temperatures here, the cue lever works ok, but still pretty slow. I haven't noticed any way of adjusting this and nothing is mentioned in the manual (although looking at it now, it does cover cartridge replacement and offers a download link for a cartridge alignment protractor!).Next up, the preamp. Aside from the speed adjustment, this is probably my biggest complaint. When the turntable is turned on, there is a pretty nasty POP from the preamp. There is no "soft turn-on". There is a delay after powering up before the pop occurs, but it happens whether the platter is spinning or not and it happens every time (the platter only spins when the tonearm is over it). Simple solution? Turn on the turntable and wait a little bit before turning on your amplifier, but there's a problem. Remember the auto-stop feature I mentioned way back at the beginning? When the arm gets to the center, the motor stops but the preamp stays on. For a while. I'm not sure how long it takes (maybe 5-10 minutes), but eventually if the arm is left in the auto-stop position with the motor stopped, the power shuts off completely and you have to turn the switch off and back on to use it again. When you do that, guess what? "POP!" Keep that volume turned down... This is common on the cheap plastic ceramic-cartridge players, but again, this is supposed to be something better. Of course, you could avoid the pop with an external preamp (or with a different turntable).My last and probably most minor complaint is that this comes with a 45rpm adapter, but doesn't give you a storage spot for it. A little plastic peg would do. You can just leave it sitting on the corner of the plinth under the dust cover, it's not like it will go anywhere. Maybe they thought keeping the adapter on the plinth wouldn't look classy? This turntable does look nice, I can't deny it.I can make NO comment on the Bluetooth capabilities of this turntable, I haven't tried it.This turntable isn't all bad. I've been using it for almost 2 months but I'm probably about to swap it out to try out something different, but it has spun quite a few records. Their accessories (the bookshelf speakers and subwoofer) make this an attractive package if you don't mind spending the money. If you're considering this player, I hope I've given you some idea of what to expect - but don't be afraid to shop around.

coming from a basic target record player... this is absolutely incredible. very pleased so far.