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Hiking boots recommendations

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r/BudgetAudiophile

 Turntable is a Fluance RT85 with an Ortofon 2m Bronze. Everything is running out to Paradigm 3/4 speakers and sounds great for my needs.

As far as audio goes, I've got an Adcom amp running the show. That's paired with a Clearaudio nano preamp. Turntable is a Fluance RT85 with an Ortofon 2m Bronze. Everything is running out to Paradigm 3/4 speakers and sounds great for my needs

As far as audio goes, I've got an Adcom amp running the show. That's paired with a Clearaudio nano preamp. Turntable is a Fluance RT85 with an Ortofon 2m Bronze. Everything is running out to Paradigm 3/4 speakers and sounds great for my needs.

<div class="md"><p>As far as audio goes, I&#39;ve got an Adcom amp running the show. That&#39;s paired with a Clearaudio nano preamp. Turntable is a Fluance RT85 with an Ortofon 2m Bronze. Everything is running out to Paradigm 3/4 speakers and sounds great for my needs.</p>
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New user, posting my setup. I'm not a dealer, just a long time vinyl collector. Let me know if anyone has questions or comments on my setup. I've got a weekly YouTube channel but I thought I'd start out by sharing my setup first :)

In the end, I decided on the Fluance RT85 because of a couple of items. I was looking to start a bit cheaper, but the Blue 2M cartridge that came on the Fluance was the deciding factor and I am so glad I went this route. The other reasons were the acrylic platter and the physical switch for the 33/45 instead of having to switch the belt like in many similar priced turntables.

So, I am here to confess that after a lot of back and forth, I am pretty confident that I'm going with a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO. I'd like to credit u/sharkamino for all of his help. I did some more research and digging. 

I need to get to my local HiFi store. They're basically down to the P1 and the Evo. 

Now, I'm moving on to pre-amps/integrated receivers. 

Down the rabbit hole I go!

<div class="md"><p>So, I am here to confess that after a lot of back and forth, I am pretty confident that I&#39;m going with a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO. I&#39;d like to credit <a href="/u/sharkamino">u/sharkamino</a> for all of his help. I did some more research and digging. </p>

<p>I need to get to my local HiFi store. They&#39;re basically down to the P1 and the Evo. </p>

<p>Now, I&#39;m moving on to pre-amps/integrated receivers. </p>

<p>Down the rabbit hole I go!</p>
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Turntable decision

The best bargain at this price is the Fluance RT85. It comes with an Ortofon 2M Blue, which has a superior stylus compared to what’s on any of these others (nude tip rather than bonded).

I seem to alway find myself in this position when I go and try and buy something I save up for, I save for one thing but once I have the money I find 10 other different options I want. I have about $500 and I’m trying to buy a new turntable. I was saving for the pro- ject debut carbon evo, and I was dead set. 

But then I was playing with an AT-LPW50PB and I thought it was pretty good and I could save some money buying this for a preamp. I’ve heard the motors on these could be a little noisy but I didn’t hear anything with the one I was using. 

You gotta understand I’m coming from an lp60 and I’m still pretty new to this. I’d really
Appreciate some feedback and suggestions you might have in the $500 area.  I’m also very open to vintage suggestions

<div class="md"><p>I seem to alway find myself in this position when I go and try and buy something I save up for, I save for one thing but once I have the money I find 10 other different options I want. I have about $500 and I’m trying to buy a new turntable. I was saving for the pro- ject debut carbon evo, and I was dead set. </p>

<p>But then I was playing with an AT-LPW50PB and I thought it was pretty good and I could save some money buying this for a preamp. I’ve heard the motors on these could be a little noisy but I didn’t hear anything with the one I was using. </p>

<p>You gotta understand I’m coming from an lp60 and I’m still pretty new to this. I’d really
Appreciate some feedback and suggestions you might have in the $500 area.  I’m also very open to vintage suggestions</p>
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The agony of trying to buy something new

 There's a lot of slack in the lever, it bounces the arm if you lift it too quickly and the tonearm safety latch feels like its going to break off every time I use it.  My last turntable was a Pro-ject Essential III and even though the body of this Fluance is much more substantial, the entire experience of lowering the needle with the tonearm lever on the Pro-ject was more solid and satisfying, whereas the RT85 feels flimsy and crappy.  The Ortofon 2m Blue looks cool, but to be honest, for a $250 cartridge it doesn't really sound much better to me than the OM10 on my Pro-ject, which didn't sound much better to me than the ADC QLM32 Mrk III on my Hitachi HT-324 from the 80s. I told you I'm not an audiophile

  The Ortofon 2m Blue looks cool, but to be honest, for a $250 cartridge it doesn't really sound much better to me than the OM10 on my Pro-ject, which didn't sound much better to me than the ADC QLM32 Mrk III on my Hitachi HT-324 from the 80s. I told you I'm not an audiophile.  Aside from the whole tonearm mess, I still think this is an okay turntable. Not worth $500 in my opinion, but one man's trash may be another man's treasure

I am not an audiophile, just a guy who likes to listen to records. I bought the white Fluance RT85 because of the positive reviews and because it looked cool with its acrylic platter, etc. I have owned many different turntables and record players over the years, but this one is the most expensive.  Overall it's an okay turntable, but that's probably as far as I would go with it

 Colored vinyl really pops on the white, though the visual aesthetic proves more impressive than actually using it.  The entire tonearm mechanism feels super cheap. The tonearm lever, stand and safety latch actually feels like something you'd find on a cheapo plastic portable record player like a Crosley. Maybe I got a bad one, but that's my honest opinion

It's Okay Although The Entire Tonearm Mechanism Feels Cheap

 The three rubber isolation feet are easy to adjust and have kept the plinth true. The solid acrylic platter adds a sense of heft and sturdiness. I always use a platter weight as well and the FLUANCE offering does a fine job. The smoked acrylic dust cover is what you'd expect

 The hype is real, as is the delivery of beautiful sound reproduction. I appreciate some of the details in the design such as being able to lock the "S" shaped tone arm in its cradle even if the stylus lever is in the raised position. The three rubber isolation feet are easy to adjust and have kept the plinth true. The solid acrylic platter adds a sense of heft and sturdiness

 The new Bamboo veneer, (Available as of May 22, 2021) is matte, clean and elegant which provides a nice contrast amid the brown, black and silver quagmire of modern Hi-Fi. The Ortofon 2M Blue Cartridge is all it's cracked up to be. The hype is real, as is the delivery of beautiful sound reproduction. I appreciate some of the details in the design such as being able to lock the "S" shaped tone arm in its cradle even if the stylus lever is in the raised position

First things first, the sound quality is a substantial upgrade from the RT82 by FLUANCE that I had purchased only a year prior. In fact it's the best sounding turntable for beginners I've ever heard. Not that I've traveled the world in search of turntable nirvana mind you. However I've seen my fair share amongst others in this price category and I'm highly impressed by the RT85's Value For Money

Pound For Pound Champ - Punches Above Its Weight.

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 See what it does is that little clip prevents the spindle from coming up when you pull up on the on the on the platter so so there you go we have a lubrication service we've cleaned and deoxidated or contact cleaned the pitch controls so now we're going to put our arm back in place we'll put our wires back in their appropriate place right there so these wires here put these up here like this these just get twirled around there never hurts to go in and make sure your ground is nice and tight that one is no problems have a peek at your capacitors right they look good what do we got there let's see it's a 330 micro ferrit at 50 volts you know if you're 330 and 125 so if you wanted to recap it you could put two new capacitors in as well on the power supply these are nippon kamikons and I know that they're good so no bulging no leaking they look good I'm not changing them out so there's a return mechanism working and resetting it's looking great okay so now I'm just gonna put our plate back on here nothing's rubbing this turntable feels like it's never been serviced because these screws just go into like the fiberboard here and they're still tight I know when I remove the plate on my 560 and I've been in and out of there so many times that the screws are so loose I've actually had to put a little bit of wood glue and saw dust into the holes to get the friction I need to hold this plate down but these are still really nice and tight all right and then you're gonna get your you know what I forgot to do I forgot to put the retaining screw in for the for the where the auto return sits we'll cut cut them right back okay the put that retaining retaining screw back in there so it's all good that's the fun part about doing these live you get to see me make mistakes and I make mistakes just like anybody else such a beautiful design this tone arm is so gorgeous definitely the the peak I think of Pioneer's turntable technology was this series with this kind of gold finish just just stunning beautiful they sound great they're mechanically beautifully engineered if you can find one of these I say go for it all right so that is basically the service okay guys so we've got a little problem with the Vortifone 2m here these are great cartridges but they're really really big they're big and fat and a lot of the old style head shells don't like them very much this pioneer one is a real pain because it's kind of concave on the inside so the back end is sitting on the edge and the front end is sitting inwards okay and that's going to result in the cartridge sitting a little not yeah the cartridge itself sitting a little bit cockeyed inside the head shell so really what should happen is this head shell needs a filler plate I'm just going to pull it off here I don't know if I actually have it I suppose all you need is some kind of material to take up the space within the head shell itself right see what I mean here so the front end of the of the cartridge is sitting inside here and the back end is sitting on these two sloped parts of the head shell so it's not it's not ideal right what you want is you want this head you want it to be on the outside so really what should happen here I'm going to pull these wires off because they all need to be adjusted I'll do that off screen what really needs to happen here is we need to fill this area of the head shell with something even if it's just up the middle here to take up this probably you know it's probably one or two millimeters right and get that filled up that way we have a little bit more adjustment space forward and back so I'm going to I'm going to put the camera on pause again and then we'll we'll have a look see what I have here to make it work and we'll come back okay so what I've done is I've taken a little bit of this foam I've cut a strip put it down the middle and I'm attaching the cartridge to that and that is giving me just enough distance to get a good mount on this now okay there are spacers available I don't have any right now if I hadn't had to use one a long time I've always had problems with some Thorin's decks and getting them to sit properly so I've always used some spacers with Thorin's but these two M's definitely do cause some issues with size they're very particular as to what kind of head shell they want to work with and this Pioneer is definitely not one of them all right so we got that hooked up so now we're getting a nice square mount let's see I don't know if we're going to get that 49 millimeter that's why I pulled out this protractor now I don't think we're going to get a 49 here so I'm just going to loosely mount this and we're going to try the bare walled on this let's just give a rough idea as to where we are here we don't want too much weight and we're doing an alignment you want to press down the needle too much turn your anti-skating off okay you might have to move the paper all right so what you want to do is you want to line this up on the crosshairs and see how square you are and then what you're going to want to do is lift it move it to the next one and see if you're square here as well now I can tell already I'm a little bit cock-eyed there so it probably needs to come back a little bit on the one side so I'm just going to check see if your squareness here that looks square now what you want to do is move it back move your paper if the platter moves and really really close right there in front of these ortefons it's really hard what you should do is tape something very flat to the front so it's perfectly perpendicular right and then line it up nothing beats a nagaoka cartridge for doing alignments I'm very square here and I'm damn square there I'm just the slightest bit off that much excuse my head that looks really good I'm really happy with that I'm going with that so we've got a pioneer aligned with the bare walled stupid protractor just a two-point protractor it gets you lined up if you can't do the pioneer unfortunately on this one this cartridge is much too big so what I'm going to do now I'm just going to squeeze that real tight and I don't know what I do with my screwdriver here it is we're just going to tighten that right there alright we're all aligned with that bare walled cartridge is mounted the bare wall did make it a little cocktail in there so maybe the shop did do it with the bare walled but I just wanted to check it I don't trust anybody and I've gone over and I've redone each four of those pins and I've compressed them cable needs a new ground it's a courtesy thing I do these cables are like brand new so we're just going to quickly test for sound make sure we're all grounded amplifier sure we have no hum beautiful no hum check our speed now for accuracy no more jumping around so our pot cleaning get it set our 33 45 looks great we'll do a quick sound tester now final thing to do is to set up our order phone here plug it real quick these are 1.8 grams I'm not going to do the arm balance guys I'm just going to do it with the scale a little bit heavy all right let's call it 1.81 and then I'll just adjust the reading on the dial so it shows at 1.8 and set up our anti-skate at 1

8 or thereabouts and now we can really listen all right look at it sounds really nice nice And there you have it, Pioneer PL 518. Stunning example of one. I don't think I've ever seen one this clean and I'm just amazed at the job he did cleaning this up. Stunningly beautiful turntable

 I'm hoping it's a newer turntable. I have a few guys who've got these newer turntables that they've got issues with them. We will do a few new ones. That's what I'm hoping for

Pioneer PL-518:  Servicing and Cartridge Alignment

 The sound on the other hand is another story. I wish my vocabulary can give a powerful enough description of how badly my turntable sounds. My classic Beatle records had the appeal of Barney's greatest hits. (if such a thing exists on vinyl) Those customers who enjoy listening to their music without the presence of a hearing aid will be quite displeased

I'm being generous by giving this two stars . The positives are the price was not steep, the delivery was when promised, and the piece fits correctly. The sound on the other hand is another story. I wish my vocabulary can give a powerful enough description of how badly my turntable sounds

Not Worth It.

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