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RT85 Reference High Fidelity Vinyl Turntable

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Product Review (submitted on June 18, 2021):

It's a fine turntable. A 4-star experience in overall. Static noise is still present in full silence before playing a record. Connected properly including the ground wire. Some people complained the Fluance suitable preamp is not of fine quality. Installed much better praised Nobsound T3 MM Phono Preamp. Same thing, expect to experience notable static noise in full silence before playing a record. That would be the first thing to improve on this tunable. In fact, a number of the class comparable European turntable systems manufactured 40-50 years ago with the embedded preamp and amplifier had fine less of the static noise turned on in full silence before playing any record. The comparable class Japanese turntables of the same era connected to outer preamp and amplifiers were a way better in static noise presence(no such noise almost). So, looks like we're still dealing here with the Chinese quality control even those this one Made in Taiwan, which is normally of a better quality production by default comparing to the mainland production. Don't think you should pay thousands of the United States dollars to get these most basic features like static noise reduction. It should be present by default on any middle class turntables or systems. It may have not been a default for the turntable systems 50-70 years ago in the immediate post-WWII era... Also, I mentioned there is no Auto-return feature on this one. My bad. It's not by default. But, there is a switch on the back allowing the Auto-Stop. It's not the full Auto-Return function as was normal on a middle class turntables systems with embedded preamp and amp 40-50 years ago, but the Auto-Stop still does the job. The main point, once the record is ended it must stop so the stylus doesn't scratch the record getting damaged itself after a while. So, at least, the Auto-Stop is presented. The bug in the design here is that the Auto-Stop should be ON by default. And, there should be an option to switch it OFF. Otherwise, they could switch it ON at the factory itself before packing. It may take time before user finds the Auto-Stop is still present but is turned OFF by default. A solid 4 star experience with that feeling that somehow a few drops of bs were added to a fine well made stew otherwise... Still much to appreciate yet the problem with the smell, which is the sine static noise in full silence with the system turned ON before starting to play a record.