Sadly, though the House of Marley's Stir It Up comes fitted with an Audio-Technica cartridge and a preamp, you will still need to purchase your own set of speakers and amplifier or stereo system. In this way, this is a turntable and not a record player. Though the two terms are used rather interchangeably nowadays, the latter technically refers to a unit that can both spin the record and play it aloud at once. A turntable, by contrast, simply spins and reads the record and then sends the information forth.