Review Details
RT81 Elite High Fidelity Vinyl Turntable
Product Rating:
| Overall Performance |
Product Review (submitted on June 21, 2018):
The RT81 is a real good turntable for the price.
I’m giving it 4 strong stars and I’m happy I bought it.
The built in pre-amp sounds better than the one in my power amp so I’m sticking with it.
Let me get the negatives out of the way: the thing was feeding back pretty bad and I tried several cheap outboard solutions but nothing really did the trick.
Turned out it was the dust-cover.
Yeah the very cool looking tinted dust-cover basically acts as a parabolic microphone and does the unit no favors.
Once I took it off - fantastic. I have to turn it WAY up to trigger the feedback threshold.
The speed adjustments are ridiculous. It says a 1/16 standard screwdriver will work but you actually should use 3/64 jewelers.
It’s a GD nightmare but I have the thing running at *exactly* 33.3 / 45 rpm.
So now you know what to look for.
I’m happy as a clam now that those issues have been handled.
I don’t hesitate to recommend this turntable. - Verified Store