Question: is a turntable the same as a record player

Answer: Yes, Usage of terminology is not uniform across the English-speaking world (see below). In more modern usage, the playback device is often called a ``turntable'', ``record player'', or ``record changer''. When used in conjunction with a mixer as part of a DJ setup, turntables are often colloquially called ``decks''. In later electric phonographs (more often known since the 1940s as record players or, most recently, turntables), the motions of the stylus are converted into an analogous electrical signal by a transducer, then converted back into sound by a loudspeaker.