About WikiTurntable

WikiTurntable follows the turntables and record players for sale at the store: belt-drive and direct-drive decks, suitcase players with built-in speakers, and models that send sound over bluetooth or record to a computer. Each entry repeats what its seller says and a price with the time we saw it.

From the listing, in its own words

Drive type, the speeds offered, whether a phono preamp is built in, the cartridge named and the outputs on the back are copied out of the seller's title and bullets. Where a listing is silent, the field is empty here. We never fill a gap from a photo, and we do not assume that two decks from one brand share a part.

No record has been played on these

None of these turntables has spun a record in our rooms, tracked a warped disc or been compared against another deck by ear. For that reason there are no sound scores, no verdicts on wow and flutter and no list ranked by how music feels. How a deck sounds in your house is for the listing, owners and your own speakers.

Prices come with their time

The amount beside a turntable was read from the store and shows the time of that reading. When a number gets too old to stand behind it is removed, and the store's page is where the price of the day is set.

The way the money arrives

WikiTurntable takes part in the Amazon Associates program. If you buy after following one of our links, Amazon pays us a small share and you pay the same as before. The order on a page comes from your filters and the price, which means a seller cannot pay to rise.

The guides put turntables side by side on stated specifications and price. The Learn section explains belt versus direct drive, phono stages and tracking force from maker and standards sources, and the front page lists how many turntables we cover.