The New Glorious VNL-500 USB Is A Turntable For DJ, Studio & Home Use

Glorious, a sister company to Reloop, has announced the Glorious VNL-500 USB turntable – a “versatile turntable for home and DJ / studio use, with both an integrated phono preamplifier and a USB audio output making it easy to digitise your vinyl collection”, according to the company.

This direct drive turntable features basic controls for DJing including a tempo slider, but also is designed to be easy to plug into both line inputs on all kinds of audio gear, and anything that can take a USB in.

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That means it is perfect for ripping vinyl, and would suit both home users digitising their music collections, and studio producers trawling vinyl for samples. If you did want a phono level output, that’s switchable too.

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For casual DJing, studio and home

While at this price you’re not going to get club standard (we assume it’s got a plastic body, for instance, not the metal you’d expect in a pro turntable), it is nonethless direct drive, with a die cast platter and Ortofon OM Black pickup pre-installed on a matching headshell. Therefore it’s likely to sound great, and will work right out of the box with minimal fiddling. It also comes with a lid, which is not always a given nowadays.

Price is €329 / $379 / £299, and the turntable is available now. More info on the Glorious website.