What if.... Give me some examples, I really doubt much gets recorded in analogue anymore. Sound engineers are not hipsters, they use digital whenever possible to preserve the original recording.

But hey ho....

As long as your vinyl sounds better to you on your acrylic upgraded platter turntable that's all that matters :wink: . Out of curiosity, in what way did the acrylic platter sound better? In my technical mind the only difference that could possibly make is alter the wow/flutter characteristics in some way.

​Ha ha whatever.What if the original recording was an analogue source and mastered to CD?For me all the original master versions sound better.I have CD and vinyl and for me I'll pick vinyl every time not to be cool but because I prefer it.Im hearing sounds on recordings I've never heard before on CD due to compression.Fact is buy what you like but for me I'll buy original cuttings not re mastered digital to analogue pressings.

​I understand that there are badly made recordings and get the whole loudness war. I generally avoid music that is badly produced and recorded, I find that some modern pop suffers from compression due to this. I guess my taste in music is bit more grown up, the genres I'm interested in are generally very well produced and recorded....and no way would they sound better on vinyl.

Music nowadays is digitally recorded, digitally mixed and then digitally mastered, so it's not like the analog vs digital argument holds up anymore. I can't help thinking the vinyl hipsters are being suckered, I even read something quite amusing recently, some vinyl releases used Cds as the master.

I'm curious about the records you say woop the equivalent CD release, please give me some titles I can go check out for myself.

Incidentally listening to music on cassette tapes now is also hip, go figure lol. Great for me as I managed to sell my old pioneer cassette deck for 150 quid on flea Bay the other week, I bought that in 1989!

We're in 2017 people, get with the times!

I bought vinyl from the age of 13 up till about about 23 then CD's became mainstream. I still have CD's from that era they have stood the test of time.

I recently achieved 60 so my oldest CD's have lasted a long time

A diamond tipped needle must have a detrimental effect on a piece of vinyl?

I understand where you're coming from but mastering (how you get the audio onto whatever medium you're selling it, CD, download, vinyl) has been plagued with something called 'the loudness wars', sure, a CD has a capability of a certain dynamic range BUT it doesn't mean that full range is getting used because for the last 25 years or so the main aim is making music louder and louder until dynamic range doesn't even factor into it.
There's plenty of good articles out there that explain this stuff.

And no, I have serious issues with vinyl playback, but sometimes in some cases, yes, the vinyl whoops the backside off the totally destroyed CD masterings.

You can't use the thirds rule once you're in the vinyl world. You should be thinking 50% of your system budget on the source.

Might be a cool or hip fad but it's not true that Vinyl has a better dynamic range, it's not possible! Infact they have to use dynamic range compression when mastering some records so that the cutter dosent bleed into the adjacent groove during loud passages.

The crackles, pops and hiss (which would drive me crazy) mean that the signal to noise ratio is no where near a CD, a decent CD player will play pure silence when it's meant to, you can't say that for records.

You might prefer the inferior sound for whatever reason but Vinyl cannot compete with CD or other digital formats in terms of quality.

Had the carbon version of this and upgraded it with the acrylic platter and have to say the difference in sound is night and day.Onky issue is the cover scratched really easy.In all great piece of kit but get rid of the metal platter.

Seems a lot of money to play crackly old vinyl. I'll stick with my Sansa Clip.

Vinyl has less dynamic range than CD. The issue is not the medium but el sh*to mastering.

Having had a Rega Planar back in the day I don't understand this resurgance in vinyl. I'll stick with my CD's and lossless copies.

​The SE on sale here is already fitted with the upgrade kit I believe :smiley:

The III was legendarily plagued with terrible rumble issues, so much an aftermarket kit was sold to try and cure it (it didn't work all that well). Vinyl playback is an absolute killer to get right on a budget, which is a shame.

I have a project debut. Nice, well built, good sounding budget turntable. You can't really go wrong with one of these

Ahh Pro-ject turntables and their humongous amounts of rumble. I've been wanting to set fire to my Debut III for years.

Product is great and does exactly what you expect, but do not believe the Amazon prime next day delivery even when ordered in the correct time window it does not happen!

Aww man super hot memories but not sure about the price

Good piece of kit, my project debut from way back is still going strong.

Just remember you need a Pre-Amp for this. If your Hi-fi doesn't have a Phono input you'll need to source one.