Philips' versatile new Bluetooth turntable features a built-in CD player
- bigrickstuart
- Sep 29, 2025
- 2 min read
This "sounds" great. All the convince of Bluetooth and a name brand like Phillips making a turntable and CD player that is pretty affordable. I have a lot of vinyl LPs and a huge amount of CDs. It is a way different experience to listen to a full album or album side in the order it was meant to be presented by the artist instead of a song by sone stream.
I find I pay more attention to each song. It is also great to not have all that music locked up and not played. I love to hear the tracks I haven't listened to for a while.
I might get this for another room.
from What Hi Fi
Philips is returning to the home hi-fi market with an intriguing new product that combines physical media with modern streaming: a Bluetooth turntable that also plays CDs.
Looking rather like a standard modern turntable, the Philips Fidelio FT1 also features a CD player built into the chassis.
The turntable is a belt-drive design with two-speed playback, while the CD player is front mounted with a tray-loading mechanism. Philips says the two elements are mechanically separated inside, and found enough space inside the record player's chassis to fit a fairly compact CD player mechanism.
The aim was to offer something different from the rest of the popular Bluetooth turntable market.
The FT1 features a die-cast aluminium platter and heavy rubber slip mat to reduce vibration, an extruded aluminium tonearm that comes fitted with a replaceable Audio Technica MM cartridge, and has an auto-stop function that stops the record spinning at the end of a side.
The new deck has a built-in phono stage, with RCA stereo outputs to plug into a hi-fi amplifier or active speakers. A 3.5mm headphone jack is also included in the minimal, modern design.
there will also be speakers when it is released next year
As above, the new speakers also feature Bluetooth 5.4, LC3 and Auracast sharing. The two new Fidelio products can be bought separately or used as a full hi-fi system when paired together.
We are told that the Philips FT1 Bluetooth turntable and CD player is expected to cost €299, while the FA3 active speakers are set to be €399 per pair – but both these products will be available fully in the first quarter of 2026, so expect finalised prices then.
