Review Details
High Density Frosted Acrylic Platter For Fluance Reference Turntables
Product Rating:
| Overall Performance |
Product Review (submitted on July 5, 2020):
I picked this platter up for my RT 83 because of the supposed benefits of acrylic (sound dampening, improved frequency response, speed stability, etc.) and found that it didn't really improve on any of these aspects of the listening experience over the stock aluminum platter in any significant way. Speed stabiity was the only measureable (but still marginal) improvment of the acrylic platter; however, the speed accuracy and stability of the RT83 when equipped with the stock platter was already averaging slightly above Fluance's advertised specs so the turntable was already performing very well in this area. The one area of turntable performance where I noticed a pretty significant improvment was in the reduction of pops and crackle resulting from the greatly reduced accumulation of static during playback. The platter also looks very nice paired with the walnut of the turntable so, aesthetically, it in an improvement. Overall, I would say that my experience thus far with the platter, it does not signficantly improve the sound or performance of the turntable and I don't think that the $160 price is worth it if you are already happy with the performance of your Reference series turntable with the aluminum platter.
TL;DR: Looks nice, reduces static, but not much else to justify the high price.