Also if it has pre- phono do I need and amp...really confused. Any enlightenment gratefully received.
The built in phono stage (or pre-amp) allows you to connect to the line input of an amplifier that doesn’t have it’s own phono stage built in. This saves you from having to buy an external phono stage.
You need to think about how you want to use your turntable to play your LPs:
- turntable to amplifier (plus speakers)
- turntable to powered/active speakers (these would have to have a volume control on them as your turntable won’t have a volume control)
- Bluetooth turntable to Bluetooth speaker/headphone
If you aren’t planning to do option 3 then you can forget about needing Bluetooth on the turntable. Also worth considering is how time consuming converting LPs to digital is, you might give up after a few!