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I've been spinning my vinyl with my Fluance RT-84 with it's Ortofon Blue, to which I added an acrylic platter mat, and I swear it sounds about as good as it gets for the money, It came standard with a two speed speed control AND (without CHARGING you for it) an automatic stop function to save your stylus from getting worn out in a day should you forget your record is finished. No stupid manual belt adjustments on a pully, and you can change your cartridge out easily with its removable head shell. I never hear ANY noise coming thru, much less anything you can blame on resonance. I have been VERY happy with this turntable, and have no plan to "upgrade" to an "top tier audiophile" table for six times the money that doesn't come standard with the basics. All I need now is a good phono stage that promises to outperform the ones built into my Denon AVR or my old Sony with its handy dandy bass and treble knobs. I think I'll go for the iFi Zen which has garnered mostly good reviews, another seperate that claims to punch above it's cost.

I got my t2 super phono a month ago awesome turntable couldn’t be happier

best part of my Friday when I check out your new post :)

Scored today! Picked up a White Rega RP1 with an Ortofon Red in perfect condition for $50! Now i'll have my cool (old lol) Technics SL-J3 on one setup and have the modern look on my other. Thanks for the videos 🙂, always the first i click on.

Thanks, Rick. Lots to like with Poject. I considered them before ultimately going with my Fluance RT85. I had narrowed it down to Project, U turn and Fluance. Wound up with the Fluance. I like the glass platter on the Project for sure. I have only owned 3 turntables from the beginning. My first was a Technics direct drive with a P-mount cartridge. It was very simple to set up. Although the P-mount limited your cartridge options. But it was a great beginner turntable back in the 80s for me. Then I left vinyl for several years. When I came back I bought a Denon DP300F. It did a fair job until I purchased the RT85. Most likely, this will be my last one.

Have you seen some of their high end turntables? Jeez those things are gorgeous, and that chromed tonearm is to die for. I had recently bought an iFi Audio ZEN Phono 3 that was defective, so I sent it back and got a Pro-Ject Phono Box DS3 B which was the one I really wanted in the first place but cheaped out. It should be able to handle anything I put into it. Then I decided to run the turntable in my secondary system into my Cayin tube amp, and I bought a Pro-Ject Phono Box DC MM/MC to use with a moving magnet. So far both units are doing all that I need and sound just fine.

I’ve owned a Pro-Ject Debut Pro for a year, along with a Phono Box S2 Ultra. They are among the best purchases I’ve made.

I have a Project evo turntable and love it!

Pro-Ject turntables are a good step up for the vinyl enthusiasts who improving their equipment I used a used Pro-Ject turntable for 3 years with no problems until I replaced it with a Rega 3 which I adore Pro -Jects are a fine choice

My Como Audio Bluetooth Turntable was designed by Project and also built in the Chech Republic. It also has the same audio cables, and isolation feet. Sadly the platter is aluminum not glass. It also has a built-in phono stage though I doubt it is as sophisticated, but I find it good. But from your description the T2 has a better tone arm and better cartridge. The Como Audio came with the Ortofon OM10. Sounds like the T2 Super is a nice upgrade for down the road.

Before I bought my Audio-Technica LP-120 back in 2012 I was thinking about a Project TT. I wish I had since the LP-120 was one big POS! Score another Sumiko cartridge! Since I now have two, Pearl and the Blue Point No. 3, I'm impressed with with their carts since not many people actually talk about them. My Rega Planar 2 has a glass platter and some have said the aftermarket acrylic platters are better, but at their cost no thanks. It looks like a better TT than the ones I was looking at 8 years ago and those had grounding hum noises.

I opted for the U-Turn turntable. Mine has the iso level feet with the automatic speed control. It also has an acrylic platter with the Ortofon 2m Blue. It's basically the "Theory" but I didn't like their color options, so I went custom. But U-Turn, buy American! 🇺🇲

The PITA of vinyl records might be more appropriate.

Price? (Too lazy to google)

I believe it ,but far from being a turntable it´s 15.6% of a turntable ,where is the rest? i had a ...those that are round kind of a rotor turntable look with anti-skating with hanging weight with a tube pre-amplifier ,a amplifier and speakers with kevlar woofer paid 150€ all was from Pro-Ject, this last year than a day after i sold all for 500€ to a friend, if i had put it on ebay i would ask more with the so told to be good but never heard so bad ever 2Mred cartridge with new stylus this a brand that in the past was Quality assured ORTOFON ,but why,why?have they done this?

As a recent subscriber I wasn't aware you normally run a TD 160. Have you looked at Hanze hifi's HAT motor kit? It made a huge difference to my TD 160

You never tried my absorption feet then🥴

Us real serious tweakers make a "Project" of improving our sound. That tweaking" can double or even triple your sound quality I can testify to. And that doesn't even count doing speaker placement. Resonances and immunity to vibration are just two of the evils we tackle. There is no such thing as perfect immunity to vibration. Probably the closest is scientists who use electron microscopes. The magnification is so unimaginably high, that even vibration from a normal running refrigerator in the next room can blur the image. Same with Astronomers at the macro end of things. The slightest breeze can shake the telescope to where Jupiters bands which were visible & distinctive one moment, are invisible the next moment. What they put under electron microscopes would not be overkill under turntables or cd playback. But would be price prohibitive for most. But us more advanced tweakers, realize like no one else, just what a super delicate process it is, a stylus playing a groove or a cd player reading and translating pits. We try hundreds of things over the years. Just about everything makes an audible difference. Good, bad or just different. Most tweaks by themselves don't make more than a 3 to 5 % difference. But if you have 60 or 70 effective tweaks, that probably adds up to a bigger improvement than the difference between ok gear and super high end stuff. It is extremely important to know if what you just tried makes a difference for the positive or the negative. If you repeat it several times your sound quality is either going to go up considerably or in the opposite direction considerably. So evaluation is very important. Almost every tweak which makes a + difference makes the sound more crisp. If you tried something & your sound is duller, you probably have not made a difference in the right direction, but are going in the opposite direction. Don't confuse crispness with "bright." As your sound is getting more crisp, it's also getting more clean, as good tweaks, almost always make "Across The Board" inprovements. Cleaner highs have the subjective effect of sounding softer. So you have to be able to judge are they softer sounding because they are cleaner (good) or are they softer sounding because they're duller (bad), and you're going in the wrong direction! With a good tweak you often are getting highs that are softer from reducing distortion but which in a way sound crisper at the same time. Most tweakers aren't that ambitious and unless they can afford really great gear, they never get truly great sound; and they often don't get it even with gear like that. So it all comes down to what HP of The Absolute Sound called having real "ears " You can't get very far with tweaking, unless you can correctly idenify if something that makes a 3 to 5% difference is an improvement or a degradation The so called vibration absorbing feet they give you with turntables are not anywhere near enough. If they were placed under electron microscopes, no one would have ever likely been able to see an electron! But they do help a little bit. When I try tweaks, I usually try several things at once, because it is more exciting to hear a big improvent than a barely discernable one. But when I do that there is a possibility that some of the tweaks made a + difference and some made a negative difference. The sum of those differences is what improvement or degradation I hear. That's the downside. But your intuition as you gain experience becomes more and more correct. But doing one tweak at a time, although more boring, is probably the more accurate thing to do. When I get some creative tweak ideas and implement them, I don't reach for my cleanest recordings right away. Recordings which go from sounding not that great before, to sounding like they have much less wrong with them, and hearing them with an entirely elevated fidelity is more fun than playing a recording that sounded super clean before and now a bit cleaner. Smart tweakers don't usually mainly use their best recordings for judging whether a tweak made an improvement or not. For one thing, that would be kind of hard.

This is somewhat similar to my NAD c588, the glass platter is the same, the RCA cables are the same and the motor setup is the same. The NAD belt can be adjusted for 45 RPM, it has a carbon fiber tone arm and it doesn't have a built in phono stage. The NAD is also priced a bit higher.

I love your channel and I’ll watch every video. Just don’t like your shirt on this one

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