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High Density Frosted Acrylic Platter For Fluance Reference Turntables
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Product Review (submitted on July 26, 2022):
I purchased an RT82 about a month ago, and decided to do my own upgrade with a Nagaoka MP200 cartridge and the acrylic platter. The cartridge greatly improved the stereo separation and dynamic range over the Ortophon OM10, as expected. But the big surprise was the impact of the acrylic platter. I had expected the platter would offer a dramatic upgrade in appearance, and it does. But I thought the sound improvements would be only subtle. Wrong, wrong, wrong. The acrylic platter produces a noticeable deepening and strengthening of bass, it removes sibilance from recordings prone to same, and it completely changes for the better the sound of solo piano. With the aluminum platter, piano notes in lower registers never sounded natural when compared to a real piano. With the acrylic platter, the notes all sound natural. The acrylic platter is not just a cosmetic improvement; it provides a significant improvement in sound quality.