๐ง Turntable Transformation: Elevate your vinyl experience!
The Fluance HiFi Vinyl Record Weight Stabilizer is a high-mass 760-gram steel accessory designed to enhance your turntable's performance. It reduces unwanted vibrations, keeps records flat, stabilizes rotational speed, and features an antiresonant rubberized coating with a protective velvet pad, making it a must-have for vinyl enthusiasts.
M**E
High mass (weight) in a small package
I love this weight. It looks great and works great! It's short height allows my dust covers to close. Others that I've had worked well but were too tall for some of my dust covers. A quality product!
N**O
Great record player weight
Nice and heavy. Really smooths out records and makes them sound great.
R**H
Fluance RW03 Record Weight Stabilizer
To be honest, I havenโt used the RW03 stabilizer yet, but I give it a five star because Fluance is excellent with everything they provide (in my opinion) Iโll revisit this post once I test it. Itโs got fantastic weight and has a solid build.
N**H
Great for slightly warped records
Exactly as described. Works great.
M**S
GREATLY improves DETAIL if you have ACRYLIC platter
I have the Fluance RT85 Acrylic Platter w/ Nagaota MP110 cartridge (bought from Fluance thru Amazon) and fell in love with my 20-30 year old vinyl after I had my records in storage for at least 10 years since my old Turntable broke and CD's got popular.BUT... as I got back into vinyl for the last 6 months (bought all the new cleaning toys, sprays, brushes etc), I noticed that my records would "slip" on the acrylic platter occasionally when I lightly applied the carbon fiber brush to remove light dust and electrostatic whatever. Then, if I decided to spritz a record brush with cleaner fluid and VERY LIGHTY let it drag on the rotating record, it would almost always slip against the acrylic and the record would slide on the platter until I lifted the pressure to almost nothing.I NEW THIS IS NOT GOOD. (I normally do a GOOD spray cleaning on the counter on microfiber towels but sometimes I want to do a light cleaning while the record is spinning). A rubber platter would certainly not do this, a cork platter mat would probably not do this... but the acrylic platter looks AWESOME but it's a hard surface and the vinyl does not stick well to it. Sorry, I wish I could say it somehow is better, but no.. it just LOOKS AWESOME and that's ok.So I bought this QUALITY record weight, its hole is dead center (I measured it) and it DOES NOT inhibit closing the Fluance TT cover. It is very shallow and wide and heavy.SOUND CHANGES: I kept playing the some 30 second pieces with and without the weight and this was what I found on my good and high quality, flat records:1-NEW sounds!!! I listened to Grover Washington Jr Winelight without the weight and would pic out faint instruments that would become very clear and even pronounced with the weight.2-More "space" or "room" in the song3-The base is "tighter" NOT bigger or louder or deeper (sorry bass-heads)4-See number 1 above: I can't emphasize enough how much cleared most instruments come through and some are totally new that I didn't even hear before.REASON: I assume that the vinyl record against the hard acrylic platter had a slightly uneven contact that caused resonance that was picked up by the needle and it "warmed" or rounded the bass or lower notes and the mid sounds and other nuanced instruments got lost, or drowned out.Conclusion: If I had a cork mat or leather or some rubber, I may not have heard a difference, but I paid extra for the nice clear acrylic platter so if you have the same thing, you need this weight. It's been fun re-listening to my vinyl again with this weight on.
K**I
A gamble at time of this review.
You'll notice if you list reviews by "recent", that many reviews, are calling out a bad batch of these record weights. It would seem all of the black models are poorly produced in this batch. Hopefully future batches will get back on track and correct these flaws.Mine like all the others has an uneven finish, and the Fluance name is only partially visible. I got lucky in the sense that I didn't have the other common problems that are showing up. The protective fell bottom is securely stuck on, and correctly centered.Also, mine exhibits no visible wobble. That means it is correctly drilled for its center hole. Many appear to be off center.Given the cosmetic blemish is relatively minor on mine (kinda looks like I've been using it a couple of years), I decided to keep it. It gives it a bit of warm character. It works great, and you can hear how the music tightens up when used on a system with an acrylic platter (or acrylic platter mat).It's almost impossible to find a low profile weight with this much mass, that doesn't cost a couple of hundred bucks. So I think it's worth the gamble in ordering one to see if you get a keeper or have to exchange it until you do.Fluance needs to do a recall of these and demand a free couple of batches from whomever is making these for them. It makes Fluance look bad because they are selling a visibly bad looking product, and they are heavy into the "lifestyle" look with their whole catalog. This just really defeats a good deal of money and effort they spend on promoting that look.
P**M
Good value
More stable than previous clamp. Good value
P**C
It's Fit for my Turntable
Looks really great, it's pretty heavy and it is fit for my turntable - Pioneer PLX-500 ๐๐ป I read some negative reviews about this item... my piece is okay. ๐ I'm lucky guy๐ค
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