I have a Project Carbon (I guess it's the Debut Carbon) from a couple of years ago. Quite happy with it, although I did have to do the "rubber washers in the motor suspension" tweak to get the motor noise down. I think the new ones ("DC") have an improved motor and suspension.

The Ortofon Red cartridge also seems pretty decent, although I haven't been able to find my old Shure cartridges and see how they compare. I did pick up a DL-110 MC cartridge before they got expensive, but part way through installing it occurred to me to check if the platter was magnetic. Clunk... yep. Crap. Might have to get myself an acrylic platter for Christmas.

In theory my old Shure M95ED (and maybe even a V15) is somewhere in the house but I haven't found it yet and am running out of unopened boxes.

Last edited by bridgman; 12/28/17 11:22 PM.

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