Juice Deck Suitcase Vinyl Record Player with Built-in Speakers, USB & SD Card Functions

Not massively loud but still good. Nice case and easy to use.

Very good item for the money, does what it is supposed to do.

Had the record player 3 months and the belt is slipping... cheap rubbish

This is just a quick review. I've not had it long and have only given it a brief test using an SD card, but since there are currently no reviews, I thought I'd jot a few words down: The case the deck is housed in feels pretty robust. It's probably made of wood. The turntable is tiny (which of course makes the whole thing quite portable) and has a slightly delicate feel, but feels like it'll be fine if treated well. I haven't tried a 12" yet, but I imagine it would just about fit in the available space. It has 33, 45 and 78 rpm speeds. I believe it can record to a USB stick or SD card. I've just tried an SD card. That worked well, except that the file that appeared on the SD card was recorded at a sample rate of 32 kilohertz (a .wav file not an .mp3 thankfully). It actually sounded fine, but I think that recording at at least 44.1Khz (CD quality) would have been a more sensible/obvious move. Apparently vinyl can hold material with an even broader frequency range than CD, but perhaps the reasoning is that the deck and cartridge are only of a basic quality and couldn't handle said higher frequencies anyway. I believe it can be plugged into a PC as well, and that in that case it will almost certainly act like a sound card. I haven't tried this yet. It might be that a higher sample rate is available in this scenario, but for my money a PC-less set-up is far more convenient. It comes with the usual free Audacity audio editing software that's available free online anyway. This is perhaps a missed opportunity as special software that detected gaps between tracks on LPs, or even made it swift to mark them on the waveform and split would have been very helpful (I recall minidisc players always did a grand job of this). I personally don't have a lot of love for Audacity, but it's capable enough and is free after-all. It can do the job, but it's arguably made manufacturers of such audio devices a bit lazy in not offering anything better suited to beginners. All in all, I really like it. I'm hoping to find a way to change the sample rate for recording, as that's the big gotcha as far as I'm concerned. If I find I way, I'll report back. The deck also comes with an external power supply. Having one built in might have been better. Or even having a space to safely store the external power supply in the suitcase would have made a lot of sense. Note also that my satisfaction level is based on me picking it up for £35 from Tesco. I'm aware that it often sells at higher prices elsewhere. I've seen it selling for £70 at Boots online, and I'm not sure that I would consider that good value. Update: Initially I wrote that I was pleased to find that the files had been saved as .wav files. However on further investigation it seems that those .wav files have been encoded using IMA ADPCM encoding. This appears to be a lossy sound compression algorithm which reduces file sizes at the expense of introducing a level of distortion (typically in the higher frequencies). A far better (and simpler!) choice of encoding would have been lossless PCM. This would have produced larger files, but the cost of SD cards is low enough that it would be no issue whatsoever. So, the sample rate is really a bit low, meaning that the highest and least audible frequencies are at best missing. The compression algorithm then puts the remaining higher frequencies at risk of distortion. On a technical level, this is all a bit unfortunate and smacks of some poor design choices. However, as I said, the recording actually sounds pretty alright, so you may not even notice. I'm going to drop it from four to three stars, though. If it were an option I'd probably stretch to three and a half.

Had it about a year. Decided to try it out again after leaving it in storage. Powers up, but turntable doesn't spin? I've only used it a few times and not for long. What a load of crap!