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RT83 Reference High Fidelity Vinyl Turntable

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RT83 Reference High Fidelity Vinyl Turntable

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Product Review (submitted on May 17, 2019):

Wow! I had forgotten just how good vinyl could sound!

From many years ago, I had a modest collection of (mostly) gently-played vinyl, and then inherited a somewhat larger collection. I decided to take the plunge back into vinyl, and had to find a suitable turntable (my old rather decent Pioneer was sold 20 years ago due to a move overseas). After lots of searching, reading reviews, and comparing prices, I settled on the Fluance RT83 as a compromise between performance and cost. It turns out that I chose well.

The turntable arrived and I was very impressed with the packaging. Although it arrived in excellent condition, it could have been dropped and kicked around, but would have likely survived due to the excellent packing.

Anyway, setup was straightforward, took about 30 minutes, but could easily have been done in less than 10 minutes after doing it once. The only hiccup was that when I first started the motor spinning, there was an awful sound!!! Yikes!!! It turned out to be my own fault with a slight misalignment of the motor pulley cap, and with that fix, all was well.

In the end, the sound of my old vinyl is simply awesome! I'm sure some of that is due to the quality of the cartridge and stylus, but they sound better than I remember from 20+ years ago.

Needless to say, I'll be happy to recommend this turntable to any of my friends who want to jump back into vinyl. On the other hand, I'd be happy to take their gently used disks off their hands!

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