Turntable as a gift...

[russy01]

My wife has this idea of getting her old man a turntable for christmas. We’re in our 20’s and such have little experience with turntables…

Father in law is a casual listener and hasn’t really got a hifi, although he does have an AV Amp with a Tannoy Mercury V4 speaker set up which he uses for Movies and music.

The turntable she has been looking at is this Ion thing - https://www.amazon.co.uk/ION-Audio-Air-LP-Conversi...
She thinks it looks awesome as its has a timber finish and can be connected via Bluetooth….

Now whilst this all sounds very modern, I cant help by assume it will sound terrible via Bluetooth and from what I hear Vinyl is all about the sound and depth. Surely this turntable via Bluetooth or even aux leads is going to sound no better (and potentially worse) than any old phone/mp3 player?

Therefore I am thinking its a load of cods wallop, unless we were to buy him a decent music amp and pair of speakers to go with.

Over to you...

Thanks.

[russy01]

Mmmm these other ones look cool but it's just bringing the price up. He's not short of a few quod either, so wouldn't buy cheap? Therefore if we can't get something decent within our budget we may as well look for something else...

On a side note has anybody used one of theee ion Bluetooth things, if so how terrible are they? (My mrs is dead set on getting one, so want some ammo!)

[russy01]

To be honest I am just recommending my wife buys something other than a Turntable as Id like to get it right. She wanted to get him a full set up so he could literally plug and play that day - but its not going to be straight forward or realistic whilst remaining in our gift budget! (We're being tight this year!)