Review Details
RT82 Reference High Fidelity Vinyl Turntable
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Product Review (submitted on January 19, 2022):
After two weeks of spinning records I love the RT82 and its rekindled my love of vinyls. Well packaged and was easy and fun to set-up. I ceramic coated the plinth to keep it very shiny for years to come and resist scratches. Nice craftmanship for the assembly and components, and heavy duty weight. The adjustable legs are a must have. Outputting to the Project Series USB Phone Plus pre-amp to later record my collection.
Listening with the Fluance Ai60 and everything sounds great with good channel separation, clarity and bass production. Mixture of Jazz, Rock and Metal in my collection, with mostly all original disks I purchased and abused in the 80's on. Performed a well known torture test with Metallica's Black Album 180 gram that's a notorious skipper on lesser turntables, and passed without a pop or a skip. Well done Fluance and demonstrates that their settings for the head weight and anti-skip are bang-on for this OM10 cartridge!
Later with wear, will upgrade to the 2M blue and acrylic platter, but honestly not sure how this could get better sounding, preferences aside. Great product and all you need to properly enjoy your records!