Jessica Monroe

I’ve spent the last three months living with eight of the best automatic turntables, switching between them in my listening room, pairing each with different speakers, and pressing the start button more times than I’d like to admit. What I found surprised me: the gap between the cheapest and most expensive model on this list … Read more

Looking for the best turntables with speakers this year? I get it. Spinning your first vinyl feels magical, but sorting through belts, cartridges, and phono preamps feels like homework. After testing eight all-in-one systems and bundled turntable speaker packages for the past several months, I want to save you that frustration. This guide covers the … Read more

Looking for the best turntables with built in preamps but feeling overwhelmed by specs, cartridges, and motor types? I’ve spent the last three months testing eight of the most popular plug-and-play turntables with built in preamps side by side, listening to everything from classic Steely Dan pressings to modern indie vinyl, so you don’t have … Read more

Spending two months living with ten of the best high end turntables changed how I listen to vinyl forever. The jump from a budget deck to a properly engineered audiophile turntable is not subtle. You start hearing the room the record was mixed in, the breath a singer takes between lines, and the natural decay … Read more

If you are searching for the best DJ turntables in , you have come to the right place. Our team has spent the last three months spinning, scratching, and beatmixing on eight of the most talked-about decks on the market, from entry-level belt drives to club-ready direct-drive monsters. We logged torque readings, weighed platters, dragged … Read more

I spent the last three months testing eight of the most popular turntables for digitizing vinyl, and the results surprised me. Some USB models that look great on paper delivered recordings so noisy they were unusable. Others, hidden in plain sight, became my go-to recommendations for anyone serious about preserving their record collection in . … Read more

Finding the best turntables for small spaces used to mean settling for flimsy suitcase players that ate your records. After spending three months spinning vinyl in a 380 sq ft apartment, our team discovered that compact no longer means compromised. Today’s smaller turntables can deliver genuine hi-fi sound while fitting on a bookshelf, a desk, … Read more

I rebuilt my first vinyl setup with a hand-me-down turntable and a pair of bargain-bin speakers. The result? Thin, brittle sound that made my favorite records sound like AM radio. That frustration is exactly why I spent the last three months testing the best passive bookshelf speakers for vinyl with our team, and what we … Read more

Vinyl is back in a big way, and the speakers you pair with your turntable can make or break the entire experience. I have spent months testing powered bookshelf speakers with various turntables, from entry-level Audio-Technicas to Pro-Ject Debut models, and I can tell you that not all active speakers handle vinyl the same way. … Read more

Our team spent the last three months testing 25+ headphones at our home studio, and one thing became obvious fast. If you want the cleanest, most controlled sound from high-impedance headphones, you need a proper desktop amp driving them. A laptop headphone jack simply does not have the voltage swing to wake up a 300 … Read more