I came into this one already a bit smitten with a different turntable, which probably wasn’t fair on the Majority Moto Plus before it even got out of the box. I’d been using an Audio-Technica AT-LP60XBT, a Bluetooth deck I’d bought myself and genuinely liked, and when Majority sent the Moto Plus over to put through its paces, I was excited for a different reason entirely. It came in a timber finish, and I had a specific spot for it, a mid-century cabinet where I could picture it sitting like a proper piece of furniture rather than just another gadget. That’s the vibe I was chasing. It’s also, as it turns out, not quite the vibe I got.
The Majority Moto Plus is a belt-drive Bluetooth turntable that costs €169 in Ireland, built around an Audio-Technica AT3600L cartridge and paired with external 60W bookshelf speakers in a matching walnut finish. It plays 33, 45 and 78 RPM records, connects over Bluetooth 5.3 in both directions so it can stream out to a speaker or take audio in from your phone, and lets you record straight from vinyl onto a USB stick if you want to digitise your collection. It also comes with a three year guarantee once you register it, which is decent cover for a turntable at this price point.
What’s underneath the finish plays records just fine, and the cartridge does what a good cartridge should. But everything wrapped around that, how it looks, how you connect it to anything, how it treats your records when they’re not spinning, feels like nobody sat down and thought about the person actually using it day to day. I ended up not recommending it, and I’ll get into exactly why.
The timber finish that isn’t
Let’s start with the bit that got me excited in the first place, because it’s also the bit that let me down hardest. That timber finish is real enough on top, but look below it and you’re straight into cheap black metal, a scatter of knobs, buttons stuck on the side, and a big red light that does nothing for the overall look. It’s the kind of detail that screams no attention to detail was paid to how this actually sits in a room, which matters more than it sounds when you’ve bought into something specifically because of how it was going to look on a mid-century cabinet.
The bit that annoyed me more, though, was something smaller and much more practical. On the Audio-Technica AT-LP60XBT Bluetooth turntable I’d been using, the hinges for the dust cover (which covers the entire record) are built so you can actually rest your record sleeve against the back of the unit while it plays, propped up so you can see what’s on. It’s a genuinely lovely little design touch, and it tells you Audio-Technica thought about how someone actually uses a turntable, not just how it looks in a product shot. On the Moto Plus, the sleeve just pokes out through the back of the unit with nothing to hold or protect it. That’s not a huge functional problem on its own, but it’s exactly the sort of thing that adds up to a turntable that feels like it was designed in pieces rather than as a whole.
Connecting it to a Bluetooth speaker is needlessly complicated
If you’re wondering how you actually pair the Majority Moto Plus with a Bluetooth speaker, here’s the annoying answer. You don’t use the Bluetooth setting for it at all. You set the mode dial to phono, the setting you’d use to actually play a record, then press a separate BT OUT button before it starts looking for a speaker. Nothing about the interface tells you that’s how it works, so the first time round you’re left turning knobs and guessing.
I actually had to read a manual guys, and that’s really not cool.
That would be a forgivable, one-time inconvenience if it stuck once you’d worked it out. It doesn’t. Every single time I switched the Moto Plus off and back on, I had to go through the entire pairing process again from scratch. It doesn’t remember the last speaker it was connected to, which for a turntable that markets Bluetooth as one of its headline features is a genuinely baffling oversight. Once it was actually paired, the audio itself was fine, not distorted, not laggy, perfectly capable. The problem was never the sound. It was getting there every single time I wanted to listen to a record.
Now, do I get that most people aren’t buying record players to play over Bluetooth speakers? Yes, of course. But this is my review and that’s my take. I have really good Bluetooth speakers and the experience is poor.
What it’s actually like to use day to day
To be honest, once you get past the design and the pairing faff, there’s a solid little turntable in here. It tracked reliably through everything I threw at it, no skips, no unexpected jumps, nothing that made me question the Audio-Technica cartridge doing the actual work. I’m not someone who listens to vinyl for fidelity reasons anyway, that’s what streaming is for in my house, so I care far more about whether a record plays cleanly from start to finish than whether an audiophile would clock some subtle improvement up at the top end. On that measure, the Moto Plus did exactly what it needed to.
I also like the idea of the USB recording feature a lot, being able to digitise records onto a USB stick without needing a separate setup. That suits how I actually use vinyl, which is less about chasing perfect sound and more about the ritual of putting an album on and letting it play the way it was sequenced, especially with something I picked up at a gig rather than something I could just stream anyway. It’s a genuinely useful feature on a turntable at this price, and one I’d have liked to enjoy more if getting music out of it wirelessly wasn’t such a chore.
The Goosed verdict
I can’t recommend the Majority Moto Plus, and that’s a harder thing to say than it sounds given how much of it works properly underneath. The tracking is reliable, the cartridge does its job, and the USB recording is a genuinely nice feature for anyone building a digital archive of physical records. But a turntable lives or dies on how it fits into your actual routine, and between the design that abandons its own good idea halfway through and a Bluetooth setup that makes you re-pair from scratch every time you switch it on, this one asks too much patience for what it gives back. I’ve already swapped my own Audio-Technica AT-LP60XBT back in and am delighted to have it back. It’s an overall neater record player in fact.
If you still want to see it for yourself, the Majority Moto Plus turntable is priced at €169 direct from Currys Ireland, complete with the external speakers and a three year guarantee once you register it.
