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Totally appreciate what your saying dude and your right for a 13 years old the sets ups we are suggesting might be a bit over the top. However, I remember getting a HiFi system in my teens (early 80s), which had a built in record deck and for a while I thought it was OK. However I then heard a decent separate system and realised I had only been hearing half the music that had been recorded. Also the vinyl that was played on that system back then is now damaged and pops bangs and hisses in a way that the records that were only played on the good system I bought when I started working a few years later do not. An inferior system will be a toy rather than something he can listen to music on. Your better off sticking to a CD player or MP3
Thanks everyone for your input, much appreciated!!
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
But!
If you're looking to get something fun and cool for your lad which might get him interested in music/vinyl then I'd say go for one of those briefcase type ones you linked to. Sound quality won't be brilliant through the in built speakers, but that turntable with a couple of old charity shop records (or reissues you can get in sainsburys etc) would be a great present, and it's not as if they're precious records he's going to damage on it. It will introduce him to the joy and "theatre" of putting on a record and having to turn it over half-way through (that his generation will never have experienced!!!), and if he wants to get in to it more then he can always upgrade later.
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I bought it to play my loft records and paired it with a Bose, it was ok but as someone who grew up with vinyl it only inspired me to box it back up and buy a whole new set up. For someone new to vinyl the experience as mentioned will be enough to keep them happy (maybe).
I certainly wouldn`t expect great sound from any of the cheap turntables, tbh.
https://www.superfi.co.uk/p-17046-ion-air-lp-usb-bluetooth-turntable.aspx