Audio-Technica's new affordable turntable delivers key upgrades on its popular entry-level deck

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The new model sits just above the AT-LP60xBT

The Audio-Technica AT-LP70xBT in Black Silver on a wooden table
(Image credit: Audio-Technica)

Audio-Technica has announced a new affordable turntable to add in to its line-up, offering some sonic improvements on its ever-popular (but three-star) AT-LP60xBT.

Sitting just above that deck in Audio-Technica’s extensive range, the AT-LP70xBT is a fully automatic wireless belt-drive turntable, aimed at delivering a user-friendly experience to vinyl newbies. 

The AT-LP70xBT plays both 33 1/3 and 45rpm records at the touch of a button and has a switchable phono preamp so you don’t need an external amplifier to get started. You can even stream straight to wireless speakers thanks to the Bluetooth functionality, with support for Qualcomm's aptX Adaptive codec for better quality wire-free playback.

There’s a J-shaped tonearm to reduce tracking errors and the brand’s own AT-VM95C cartridge, which features a 0.6mm conical stylus promising to deliver excellent channel separation and low distortion to tip-top tonal quality.

A close up of the AT95C cartridge on the Audio-Technica AT-LP70xBT

(Image credit: Audio-Technica)

Even better, it’s easily upgradeable to another stylus from the popular VM95 range, giving this turntable room to grow with you too.

Finally, the stylish three-piece anti-resonance chassis provides a solid foundation to dampen unwanted noise, and it’s the improvements here that see the biggest uplift in sound quality compared with the LP60xBT, according to Audio-Technica.

The Audio-Technica AT-LP70xBT will be available in mid-to-late August in a choice of Black Silver, White Silver and Black Bronze and costs £219 / €249 / $249 / A$499. We also know that a non-Bluetooth version – the AT-LP70x – is planned for the US too, costing $199, and Australia at A$599, but as yet we’ve had no confirmation of that for other territories. We'll keep you updated as we hear more.

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Verity Burns

Verity is a freelance technology journalist and former Multimedia Editor at What Hi-Fi?. 

Having chalked up more than 15 years in the industry, she has covered the highs and lows across the breadth of consumer tech, sometimes travelling to the other side of the world to do so. With a specialism in audio and TV, however, it means she's managed to spend a lot of time watching films and listening to music in the name of "work".

You'll occasionally catch her on BBC Radio commenting on the latest tech news stories, and always find her in the living room, tweaking terrible TV settings at parties.

1 Comment Comment from the forums
  • Rui
    well. iwouldn´t call it entry level but for it´s quality as a good price compared to others till 2.000€ that have not half of this turntables quality from a brand that m ake us used to have good parts for turntables and also excelent cartridges , today no longer are made cartridges or stylus at a 70´s quality, the best ever available to us the consumer, i have from Pioneer a PLC-590 from 20 series , that it was a good and high quality turntable in the 70´s but no turntable today touches the quality of this not even at a 1% level, i have a AT arm and a cartridge MC type from Audio-technica that made it even release a better sound , it weren´t cheap but compared to today, it was a option not that expensive, after all and more than 40 years of use without any single problem is still a perfect and high quality turntable so AT it´s without a doubt what anybody can invest without having worries about it´s quality some might find it very cheap but here´s a brand that makes still great turntables and asks for a reasonable price, no Project or Rega around the price of this AT comes near it
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