TechAudioI don’t know how to feel about this hybrid turntable with pulsing LED lightsLenco’s new record player has amp and speakers built in… and more importantly, it has colourful lights built into the platterWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechAudioI don’t know how to feel about this hybrid turntable with pulsing LED lightsLenco’s new record player has amp and speakers built in… and more importantly, it has colourful lights built into the platterWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Lenco’s new record player has amp and speakers built in… and more importantly, it has colourful lights built into the platter
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Lenco)
(Image credit: Lenco)
Lenco has just announced a new turntable that’s the ultimate all-in-one record player: it includes all the bits for playing records, an amp and built-in speakers, a USB port for digitising your wax, and… well, it has LED lights in the platter, that can change in time with the music.
Priced at £150, the Lenco LS-50LED probably isn’t going to trouble the more audiophile entries in our list of thebest record playersfor sound quality, and while there’s a part of me that can’t shake the idea that it’s a perversion of the form… it looks pretty fun! Especially for someone like a student, which is surely the target market.
You can choose between seven different colour options for the LED lights, or just let it change with the beat of the tracks, or even turn the lights off and pretend you were classy and serious the whole time.
The Lenco LS-50LED comes with a ceramic cartridge and two styluses in the box, and can be set to 33, 45 or 78 rpm speeds. The platter is belt driven, with an MDF cabinet, and an included dust cover (which reflects the LED lights quite nicely in Lento’s shots).
(Image credit: Lenco)
(Image credit: Lenco)
If you grow out of the built-in speakers (as most surely will over time), there’s an RCA output to connect to some external speakers – we’ve got a whole guide to thebest turntable speakers, should you need it.
Well, it was just a matter of time before we got here, I suppose. The LED mafia was never going to be happy restricting itself to gamer gear andsmart lighting. Several of thebest Bluetooth speakerscome with little built-in light shows now.
I think it’s smart that Lenco integrated it into the platter here. It feels like the easy route would’ve been to just run the lights under the main body, but that would have been much less cool. Having it emerge from right under the records, and splash onto the controls, is much, much funkier.
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The Lenco LS-50 range also comes in an LED-less form, for £130. You get all the same features, but whereas the LED model only comes in black, the regular LS-50 comes in a wood or light grey finish with a black platter, or a blue or pale pink finish with a light grey platter.
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