![]() There is an electronic speed switching upgrade option available from the manufacturer but this was not included with the review sample. Drive comes from a small AC motor topped with a metal stepped pulley of different circumferences which the user has to manually adjust the belt on, for speed selection. Specs: The carbon fibre tonearm from which the Debut Carbon (just Debut from now on) derives its name apart, the entire package is a two-speed (33.33 and 45 rpm) belt-driven manual turntable. So, some may see this as a price-breakthrough offering, others a “huh, it’s about time” non-event. But things have changed quite a bit since then.Ĭarbon-graphite tennis racquets are now easily affordable, and old hat to the point manufacturers need to incorporate ever more exotic sounding materials like boron, titanium, Kevlar, or what-have-you to catch one’s eye, and carbon-graphite badminton racquets are available even at near penny-level prices. So yeah, I suppose you could say I’ve been conditioned to think carbon fibre must be an expensive exotic space-age material that has little relation to the stuff in the pencils we used to write with (remember those?). I’m also from the generation to whom carbon-reinforced tennis racquets were first marketed (well, they were called “graphite”, but to us non-materials engineers, it’s about the same thing) and had drooled over the Donnay racquet used by Bjorn Borg in the early 1980s, thinking I would never ever be able to afford something like it in my lifetime. I remember the first Wilson-Benesch turntable package, the apparent justification for its not unsubstantial price being liberal use of this material, most obvious visually in its tonearm shaft. ![]() To many, this would’ve seemed a, uh, pipe dream some time ago. PRO-JECT AUDIO SYSTEMS DEBUT CARBON turntableįirst impressions: A carbon fibre tonearm on an entry-level turntable? It’s true folks, we’ve got it here with Pro-ject Audio Systems’ Debut Carbon turntable, the company’s fourth generation offering to wear the “Debut” moniker.
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