Everyone (and by ‘everyone’ I really mean ‘discerning individuals’) enjoys vinyl as a music format, and not only because it’s capable of sounding sublime. There’s a tactility to LPs that you just don’t get from any other music delivery, and their sheer physical size allows for a much richer experience where artwork and other added-value bits and pieces are concerned too.
But there are downsides to vinyl too, of course, some a direct consequence of the positives I just mentioned. The physical size means they’re a pain to store, for instance. Then there’s the fact they’re so easy to damage – and don’t even get me started on the fact they have to be wired into a system before you can even get to hear them.
But lately some intrepid turntable manufacturers have been attempting to drag this ancient technology into the 21st century. The Bluetooth turntable has become a thing – a record player that only needs to be plugged into the mains, that can be positioned where you’d like to it go rather than where it insists on going, and that can then stream wirelessly.
