hello ,i only know NAD for it´s very good integrated amplifiers released in the 70´s ,later(90´S) a friend of mine bought an expensive system, who had great sound but in a year of smoth use the keys which were colored started to fall, on the deck of cassettes ,in the amplifier ,etc. the JmLabs also were great now they call themselves as a brand with a name known to be a speaker series of this refered brand ,i used to think " where did i saw that symbol ?" well with time i was making changes on one of my systems and looked for a pair of JMLabs wich was called focal with the litle symbol in the back, they now are really expensive and the ones who are afordable don´t have the quality of 5 years ago wharfedale home speakers, now i heard they joined forces with the good but destroyd KEF and Celestion being "engeniered in U.K. or England and made in China", i only hope that this one of the last good brand of speakers to survive didn´t destroyd themselves up like the two brands refered, as you refered you had a record colection that was stolen from you. Rega Planar is not a very used brand where i live, here people bought pro-ject turntables , they all talked about how good were those Pro-ject but having 7 turntables from the 70´s and only two thorens from early 80´s and other from early 90´s being the last a bit expensive ,it came with a mc type cartridge from Ortofon, but none of those 8 or 9 turntables with upgraded cartridges from Pro-ject ,only a friend of mine from germany who lives now in interior south of Portugal, he did bought a Pro-ject turntable( the turntable itself and the cartridge costed 3 years ago 14.000€ ) that is similar in sound to the 70´s turntables i own from Pioneer and Technics but nothing related they seem CHICO turntables for kids with more than 5 years old or bits of plastic with nothing in it . All from 53 to 44 years of heavy use in perfect condition, some with new cartridges ,because the old ones were not sold anymore ,it´s stylus. I went to buy one for my 90´s thorens wich at the time was a very good turntable from a known brand, to match it´s prior quality i had to buy a Ortofon Quintet black S (mc type)but maybe because i only listened everyday to records but at the most 2 or 3 hours for the last 3 monthes not much hours , they say it will sound better with more use ,because it wasn´t that dynamic ,detailed ,Yes , but having a good system i could, using the tone controls and loudness ,feel the sound becoming much better with a nice spectrum of frequencies and becoming with time a litle more dynamic, this to say that if you knew the turntables existing at the time ,run from this two brands ,the Fluance only heard one but it sounded ok ,not that good but in price very low and in quality of sound not comparable with a Pro-Ject around 1.000€ ,much better. Maybe because it came with AT cartridge that i had in a 83 turntable from pioneer ,a PL-430 wich it sounded great but only playd it to sell it in two weeks because it came with a system i wanted the amplifier and the speakers the tuner and cassette deck are still closed in their boxes, if you have knowledge about old material try to find old and working perfect will become a lot more quality in sound and cheaper ,even if you have to make some repairs that are know to be needed in old componets it would becheap ,i could tell you buy a technics modern receiver and some technics speakers that are made for this type of receiver and a good turntable that you know their quality in sound , all of those friends of mine said " the turntable doesn´t sound better than the cd player , well even the cheapest deck from the second series of AkAI when recorded from a cd the recording sounds much better this using now a A_717MKII from Pioneer some Mission from mid 80´s known as argonaut with low impedance but powerull , A PLC-590(or close) and a SP1 from technics and having restored some cassette decks i´m using to record compliations for my taste with a CT-959 from Pioneer , a DRM-800a from Denon and a old Nakamichi ZX-9, i think i recorded around 80 cassettes that i bought when no one was using them and knowing a worker on one of the warehouses he sold me maybe 10 boxes of 10 cassettes TDK SA-X , SA´s and D also several boxes of SONY UX-PRO and UX, this to say that i also either than records use cd´s and i own aropund 4.000 of original ones and spent a lot of money for a CEC cd player who is belt driven but no one knows it, but i know it sounds better than others that i still own from late 80´s to early 90´s, all of this to say buy old in perfect conditrion not expensiove with bad sound or maybe 14.000€ in a new turntable that with less than 200€ you can buy better from 76 Technics catalog ,on Ebay prices are over the roof but in local sites they still sell good material cheap. Sorry for this long text but i´m at work and i have to do something
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