Some years ago ,maybe 2020 i was ofered a new Pro-Ject turntable the evo carbon or similar ,it came with the 2mred cartridge,
i think before, this model was sold with a OM cartridge also Ortofon, i assembled it, put it working as acurate as i could ,having diferent measure devices ,from weight to anti-skating and leveled in a very acurate way ,
at the time i was using a old but kept in the box SL-3310 with a 207 C cartridge and still had a old stylus as they were built `till the 90´s,
having this new turntable and still thinking Ortofon cartridges were good as it were before , that none sounded bad,
i only knew this brand when very young my father bought a entire B series from Revox that being a litle diferent from others , tangential with the box turned over the record, in 77 all inside was branded Ortofon and the sound was close to perfection,
i even thought that after seeing a turntable from technics ,also tangential and other from Pioneer , that tonearrms would disapear but it never happened, as it was seen in early 80´s,
only later ,maybe mid 80´s i had acess to a early 70´s technics ,that using a shure cartridge it sounded very good and acurate , a SL-110,
since then i´ve bought two other turntables and in the 90´s or 96 i bought for my new system a thorens TD2001 but after some good years ,all had problems and the 70´s turntables kept working perfect, the main reason i in 2017 started using the SL-3310.
All of this to say that when assembling the Pro-Ject turntable ,it all loocked very frail and the arm anti-skating wasn´t built strong but all looked very cheap,
and soundwise was very bad , and that´s when i discovered why all talked about using pre-amplifiers,
as the sound coming from the turntable with the inpedance correctelly selected in the amplifier i was using, in the past depending on the cartridge turntables had diferent volume in output sound ,
but also there was already a lilte volume knob in the amplifier for the phono input, this in a 70´s Pioneer but also in a 80´s Grundig, after all i asked the friend who had ofered me it if he wouldn´t keep it as he had stoped a 77, SL-3100, that was as new,
he after hearing the pro-ject in my system , said he wouldn´t mind keeping the pro-ject and giving me instead the technics that he wasn´t thinking of ever putting it to use and so i trade it,
again a 70´s turntable without auto-return and very simple but a perfectelly made mechanical system like in the SL-3310, as it drops the needle very smoth in the record as after in said to be better turntables it dropped not to hard but a litle more high drop of the needle,
like in most of the 79 , technics models, that some say they are better , only never understood why, except my father´s SL-1000 mk II, that basically is a SP-10 mk II with all parts sold by technics and was expensive and works perfect today, even the MC cartridge sold by technics had a pre-amplifier fot it, but conectable to the phono line,
My opinion is that all this new turntables will not last a lot of years and i´m using turntables with more than 50 years with acurate sound and good quality wise
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