“I deeply regret purchasing this turntable. My particular table came with an extra weight under the head shell. I reached out to Pro-Ject and they claimed it was to give me more options if I wanted to install a lighter cartridge in the future. Concerned that it raised the tonearm too high, messing up the vertical tracking angle, I asked if it could be removed and they claimed it could but when I took it off the end of the tonearm wasn't heavy enough to balance out the weight at the other end. So I put it back on and the turntable is way way too bassy such that I couldn't even play albums like dub reggae recordings that have a lot of bass. Direct comparison with a Debut Carbon showed how extreme the difference was. Clearly Pro-ject messed up with a batch of tonearms and had to put these weights on as a cheap fix and it messed up the tonearm weight balance. Unfortunately it was too late to return my table and now I'm stuck with it. Normally I like Pro-ject products but they messed up with this one.”
