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RT85 Reference High Fidelity Vinyl Turntable

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RT85 Reference High Fidelity Vinyl Turntable

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60%

Product Review (submitted on September 16, 2022):

Technics SL-3300 Fully Automatic Direct Drive Turntable I bought in 1979 finally gave up. I gave it to my son who wanted to fix it.This presented me a great opportunity to replace the vintage turntable with a better turntable with modern technology I thought.It is very difficult to find comparable turntable. Then I figured turntable just need to spin with good needle to track the vinyl that I went to basic and picked belt-driven Crosley C100BT-BK with preamp.I plugged in to my system and sounded very good with low volume until I slowly turned up the volume to hear distortion. I thought my amplifier was conflicting with pre-amp and checked the switch setting, which was not the issue. I can only go up to quarter volume or it will start distorting. I like crisp sound with volume up, and this turntable won't live up to it. I packed it up for return.I wanted to spend a little more and went on top of the line Fluance RT85 fully manual belt-driven with Ortofon 2M Blue Cartridge is priced $200 by itself.I pick this one because it does not have preamp as I did not want that to be an issue causing sound distortion.This is a solid unit and I tested with different music for sound quality and it was great.Third day, I put on Golden Earring's Moontan side B looking forward to immensely rich sound but when the tonearm came down I got awful scratchy noise, lifted the tonearm to find there was no needle. The needle was broken off. I returned the unit immediately.

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