If you’re going to take hi-fi design inspiration from any other era, we can think of few better from which to do so than the 1960s and 70s. This is simply how many think a turntable should look.
With its brushed metal top-plate submerged in a wooden plinth, and a thick-cut platter upon which to rest its purpose-built tonearm, Pro-Ject’s The Classic is, frankly, gorgeous.
However, there is more to its design than to simply make ogling hi-fi enthusiasts salivate.
Build and features
Pro-Ject claims the turntable’s two-layer design helps isolate the sub-chassis and reduce interference between different parts of the deck.
Effectively, this decouples potential resonances from the already low-noise AC motor and main plinth from the turntable’s main bearing and tonearm.
Isolation is provided by a series of six TPE (Thermo Plastic Elastomers) damping balls, a family of materials that can be tuned to damp resonances at specific frequencies.
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