Our Overall Score:
8.7/10
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Latest price search at John Lewis & Partners: £159
The most important part of buying online can be to read reviews and that’s why you’re here. We’ve scanned the internet to find as many Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable reviews as we can, regardless if they’re good or bad as we want to give you the most truthful and realistic overview of just how good Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable is. In finding reviews, we discovered that the best and most informative reviews were from customers over at John Lewis & Partners, to read these review just tap on the View Reviews button now.
When it comes to buying products online, whether that’s a TV, clothes, DJ Equipment or even a something like a sofa, there are a general set of guidance or advice that you can follow to help you get the best product for your needs and also the best for your budget. As you can imagine there are tons of different options in the DJ Equipment category and even loads of options of products from Audio-Technica so it’s important to take the time to find the right one for you. The four areas that we want to delve in to a little more are the quality, the price of the product, what the reviews are saying about it and then finally we’ll look at an overall score which takes into account the other factors.
Quality of Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable
Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable scored an incredible 8.5/10 for quality.
As you’d expect with a lot of products, quality is a very important factor for choosing products in the “DJ Equipment” category. But it’s even more important to consider and get a feel for quality when you’re buying online because you aren’t given the benefit of being able to see and try the item for yourself.
This is of course why we can’t stress enough the importance of reading lots of reviews, as it will really help you to get a good feel for how good the quality is. A top tip when reading the reviews is to use the search function on your browser and search for the word “quality” in the reviews that way you can skip straight to customers that have mentioned about the quality of Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable.
Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable is, but we also have the following factors that you should consider to get an idea of the quality of the product you’re looking at.
- Price: It probably sounds obvious, but there are links to the price you pay and the quality of a product. Try and set your expectations for the quality based on your budget. You wouldn’t expect a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Fiesta so bear this in mind when shopping.
- Specification: It’s a really good idea to look over the product description and specification section of the website, for Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable you can read the full details on the John Lewis & Partners website where it will give you all the detail you need. It’s useful as you’ll probably already have a good idea of the sort of specs that make good DJ Equipment. Also compare these specs to other similar products that are in the same price bracket.
- Brand: Audio-Technica are obviously a strong and recognisable brand for making great DJ Equipment, so you’d expect Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable to deliver to these expectations. But always consider the brand when you’re thinking about the quality of the product you’re going to buy, and where quality is an important factor to you, look only at those well known brands (of course only if your budget allows).
- Your experience with DJ Equipment: You’ll no doubt have some history with buying DJ Equipment, and you may have even bought products from the same brand, Audio-Technica, use this information to your advantage. You’ll probably have a good idea of how good the quality of the product was and any faults or floors you remember from it.
Price analysis of Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable
Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable scored highly with 8.3/10 for price in our review.
Price, a hugely important part of any purchase. Price becomes even more of a consideration when we’re shopping online because it’s so amazingly simple to compare the price of several retailers in literally just a few clicks. In fact you don’t even need to do that, we’ve run price comparisons for you in order to find the best price. The lowest price we’ve managed to find Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable for is just £159 over at John Lewis & Partners.
There’s a lot of geeky analysis to be done on price, but what we find most effective and informative is to look at 3 different figures when comparing products and that is the average price, the most expensive and the cheapest. This gives you a really good feel for what the normal product would cost but also giving you an idea of just how cheap you can find it or the opposite, just how expensive some are. It’s also useful to look at the average of the products that fit in the same category as well as products from the same brand. So we’re going to look in more detail now at the price of Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable.
Prices of products in the DJ Equipment category
We thought it would be useful to spend a bit of time exploring the price of Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable and seeing how it compares to other similar products. And also seeing how much variance there are in prices of products in the DJ Equipment category. To do this we looked at all of the products over at John Lewis & Partners, there were a total of 11 products in the DJ Equipment, and of these 11 products the average price was £189.63, making Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable below average at £159. We also looked at the cheapest option in the same category which was just £69.00 whilst the most expensive was £349.00. So you can see there’s a huge variance in the price of products in this category, as an indication there were 5 products less expensive and 6 more expensive than Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable in this category. So we thought it would be worth going into a bit more detail and looking at the prices of products from Audio-Technica.
Prices of products from Audio-Technica
So the average price of the 17 products available from Audio-Technica was £178.25, making £159 below average against the other products from the same brand. With the most expensive product from them coming in at £349.00 and the cheapest at £45.00. We thought a good next step would be to look more specifically at products from Audio-Technica that fit in to the category of DJ Equipment rather than looking at all their products.
Of the 6 products from Audio-Technica in the DJ Equipment category, the average price is £217.50 making Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable below average at £159. Again we looked at how much price can vary and found that the cheapest product to fit this criteria was £139.99 and the most expensive was £349.00 so there are again a lot of varying prices with the products. In fact to be precise we found 3 products from Audio-Technica that were more expensive and 2 that were cheaper.
Reviews of Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable
Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable scores 9.4/10 for customer reviews.
Reviews are really the most valuable part of your online shopping, they’re giving you the next best thing to being able to actually try the product for yourself. You’re not relying on a manufacturers sales description telling you just how good their product is, you’re getting genuine feedback from actual users of the product. We can’t stress enough how important it is that you spend some time reading the reviews of Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.
Below is a video we found for Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable over on YouTube.
Overall score
Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable got an amazing overall score of 8.7/10 in our review.
This figure takes into account the various criteria that we’ve covered above, the price, the quality and the customer reviews, in order to give you an overall score. This overall score of 8.7/10 then gives you a really easy figure to use for comparison purposes if you’re then going on to read any of our other reviews of DJ Equipment.
As you’ve already seen in the pricing section there are absolutely loads of different options from Audio-Technica so take your time to read the reviews, do your homework on setting a budget and seeing how the price of Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable stacks up against your budget and make sure you also set yourself a list of “must-haves” so you know that this product ticks all your boxes.
More info: Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Turntable
- Brand: Audio-Technica
- Model Number:
- EAN: 4961310137977
- Description: Audio-Technica’s AT-LP3 fully automatic belt-drive stereo turntable is a top-notch vinyl player, with the superb sound of analogue audio. Nothing short of a revolution, it allows you to experiment with different needle cartridges for a level of customisability not usually seen on this grade of turntable. With two speeds, and a built in phono pre-amp, this nifty and sweet-sounding deck is the next level for vinyl junkies. Versatile Vinyl 33 and 45rpm speeds allow you to take the pick of your vinyl albums and singles. And the built-in switchable phono pre-amp means you can plug the LP3 directly into home stereo systems, powered speakers, and other audio components that don’t have a dedicated turntable input. Quality Build With hydraulically dampened lift control, the tonearm is expertly balanced for superior sound reproduction. An anti-resonance, die-cast aluminium platter with 4.5mm rubber mat ensures stable playback of your records. Dampened base construction reduces low frequency feedback colouration, and a hinged dust cover ensures your prized records are kept pristine while playing. Switchable Cartridges This turntable comes with an AT91R dual moving magnet cartridge, specially designed to pick up every nuance of the vinyl record. But the AT-HS3 universal headshell allows you to experiment with other cartridges. It’s compatible with 1/2 mount cartridges and 4-pin turntable arms. Just switch between Moving Magnet and Moving Coil cartridge mode depending on your choice. This nifty feature allows for the next level of sonic customisation for vinyl lovers.
- Product ID: 21842415279
- Category: Electricals > Hi-Fi, Audio & Speakers > Turntables
- Colour: White
