John Darko
File it under fun: Pro-Ject’s latest turntable celebrates 75 years of Charles M. Schulz’s cartoon creation, Peanuts. This collaboration isn’t as visually outlandish as Pro-Ject’s Metallica, AC/DC or Pink Floyd efforts, and it is likely to appeal more to a mainstreamer than a die-hard audiophile. However, if you need the technical run down, here we go…
The belt-drive design is built around the Austrian company’s T1 BT turntable to feature a Bluetooth transmitter, separate line and phono outputs, a one-piece aluminium 8.6″ tonearm, a factory fitted Ortofon OM-10 cartridge, an anti-resonant sub-platter, an 8mm resonant-free (!) blasted glass platter and a CNC’d chassis – that Pro-Ject asserts is “heavy” and contains “no hollow spaces, no plastic” – mounted to four vibration absorbing feet.
Also in the box: shielded semi-symmetrical, low capacitance phono cables and a dust cover.
However, as is common with more affordable belt drive turntables, to change the rotational speed between 33 rpm and 45 rpm, we must lift the platter and move the belt to a different spindle mount. And Charlie Brown’s face isn’t printed on a felt mat but on an acrylic record plate designed to sit on top of the glass platter.
Price? €599.
Further information: Pro-Ject
