Best gifts for music lovers UK 2023: presents for audiophiles, from turntables, vinyl, to ANC headphones
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If music be the food of love - buy on, give a loved one excess of it. Regardless of whether you’re purchasing for a friend, a paramour, a colleague or a hard-to-buy for family member, if they’re an audiophile, you’re well positioned to find them something they love.
We’ll be covering all sorts of gift guides here at Recommended - from wine lovers, foodies, the lady or gentleman of your life, movie fans - it’s all covered! Here, we’re taking at look at the latest options for music lovers - the very best of the best.
How to tell if they’re an affirmed music lover? Do they ask you your top five Beatles albums? Recite Taylor Swift lyrics in daily conversation? Always underneath a pair of noise-cancelling headphones, or jumping to take charge of the playlist at a party? Then there will be something in this list to tickle them, we promise.
Best presents for music lovers at a glance:
- Best for an all-in-one vinyl set-up: Lenco LS-100 Turntable with Bluetooth and External Speakers
- Best for serious vinyl collectors: Blondie Against The Odds 1974 – 1982 (Super Deluxe Collector’s Edition)
- Best for music on the move: Marshall Monitor ii A.N.C
- Best for a portable party: Ultimate Ears WONDERBOOM 3 Bluetooth Waterproof Portable Speaker
- Best for a Beatles fan: The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present
- Best for listening and boozin’: Booze & Vinyl: A Spirited Guide to Great Music and Mixed Drinks
- Best for a rock’n’roll retrospective: Life, by Keith Richards
- Best for a miniature guitar amp: Positive Grid Mini Spark Amp
- Best for an avid guitarist: Make Your Own Guitar Pick Punch
- Best for rocking your socks off: Sock Shop Music Socks
- Best for lovers of Girl Powah: Spice Girls Lego
- Best for wannabe disc jockeys: Pioneer PLX 500 DJ Turntable
- Best for practising piano at home: Casio CT-S1 Keyboard
Thoughtful gift ideas for music lovers
A fabulous, reasonably-priced all-in-one turntable for vinyl collectors.
With a gorgeous, retro inflected design, the Lenco LS-100 also benefits from the latest aural technology: you can access the player via Bluetooth and play tunes through the built-in speakers from differents sources.
A compact number, the sound quality is impressively good for such a low price point and easily beats the competition of other all-in-one turntable/speakers.
The queen of rock has released an absolute doozy of a vinyl boxset in time for Christmas. It’s the first time the band has released a boxset in their 50 year history, and boy, they haven’t skimped on quality.
With ten albums in total, including their first six studio albums recorded for Chrysalis: Blondie, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat To The Beat, Autoamerican, The Hunter.
The boxset contains:
• 124 tracks / 36 previously unissued
• Two volumes of liner notes, track by track commentary, illustrated discography, and dozens of previously unpublished photos
• Remastered from the original analog tapes, vinyl cut at Abbey Road Studios
Take our word for it - the albums sound quality is absolutely gorgeous. A must for serious vinyl collectors.
These beautiful cans are fabulous for serious musician credibility. Created by legendary amplifier brand, the over ear Bluetooth headphones offer superlative sound quality - crank up the beats when your out and about.
Better yet, the Active Noise Control technology is seriously impressive - we wore these on a long haul flight, listening to pink noise, and they blocked the cabin noise out and helped us lull ourselves to sleep very easily.
