Debut iii manual

With its simple, elegant appearance and handsome high-gloss finish, this table will look and sound fantastic perched on your audio rack.

Its heavy steel platter spins on a precision axle and bearing for excellent speed stability and smooth, silent rotation. The motor mount and belt drive system are designed to isolate the motor's vibration from the chassis to prevent noise from being transferred to the cartridge.

That's why the Debut III comes out of the box virtually ready to play. Its pre-matched, factory-mounted phono cartridge and tonearm take the guesswork out of installation, and give you optimized sound quality with minimal effort. A few simple steps to dial in key settings like tracking force, anti-skating, and platter speed are all it takes to get this player primed and ready to deliver spacious, detailed music.

This turntable requires either a receiver or amp with a phono input or a separate phono preamp. Average review: 6 reviews. Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences with other customers.

Please see our review guidelines for help and information. By submitting this review, you agree to our terms and review guidelines. A felt-covered steel platter mates to a chrome plated stainless-steel axle running in a brass bearing housing for exceptional speed stability and accuracy.

The aluminum tone-arm employs inverted hardened stainless-steel points for superior tracking with the supplied phono cartridge. A silicone-damped arm-lift is also supplied. Decoupled Motor: The motor is decoupled from the plinth to reduce vibration transmission. Note: The turntable should be positioned on a low-resonance surface such as wood or multiple layer ply-board to avoid structural vibrations disturbing replay.

The platter's low-tolerance chrome-plate stainless-steel axle run on a polished ball bearing in a brass bearing housing. The single-screw fixing of the arm-tube allows rotation for easy adjustment of needle azimuth despite the fixed headshell. The inverted tone-arm bearing is comprised of inverted hardened stainless steel points and sapphire thrust-pads.

The Debut III also employs a silicon damped tone-arm-lift. The cartridge has an output voltage of 4mV and its recommended load resistance is 47kohms. Note: If your amplifier does not have a suitable Phono MM input, a separate phono pre-amplifier such as PBIIB, sold separately is required to connect the turntable to your amplifier. Internal Wiring: The turntable's internal wiring consists of high-grade flexible copper from the headshell right through to the fixed connection cable.

Fixed Connection Cable: The fixed connection cable 39" has gold-plated RCA jacks and appropriate capacitance and inductance values. For free personalized advice, call Our Advisors have listened to most of the speakers we carry, and can help you make the best choice for your system.

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Compare all. Read more from Crutchfield writer, Dave B. Go back See more. Discontinued item. Toggle Your vehicle. Toggle Parts you'll need. Toggle Your car stereo. I felt a turntable would be a good place to start. Even Michael Fremer is surprised at how hip it now is to play vinyl again, especially among the younger set.

I was thinking about this when I listened to the new solo recording by Chris Jones, the bassist in my jazz quartet, Attention Screen. I was recently discussing the surge in vinyl demand among our youts with Josh Bizar, of audio and music retailer Music Direct, who sees the potential for future revenue in this development.

In his words, "Young people are buying entry-level turntables, and someday they may actually have jobs. The cartridge comes already installed and aligned; all you need do is install the counterweight, set the tracking and antiskating forces, unlock the motor transport screw, and you're ready to go. The instructions are clearly written; any mechanically challenged person who has never seen a turntable before should be able to set up a Debut III in 20 minutes.

I've had a lot of experience with turntables, having owned rugged, well-designed decks from VPI, Rega, Goldmund, Linn, and Thorens; the Pro-Ject fits nicely into this company. As I unpacked and set up the Debut III, I noted how well-thought-out and simple the design is, and how rugged and stable it seems. The paint on my attractive red sample reminded me of Porsche's "Arrest Me Red" hue. The Pro-Ject's AC motor has a two-step metal pulley, for 33 and 45rpm 78rpm is available as an option , which drives the hub and platter via a flat-ground belt.

To reduce the transmission of vibrations, the motor is decoupled from the fiber-board plinth, which sits on four shock-absorbing feet. The steel-sheet platter is fitted with a felt mat and sits on a hub with a spindle of chrome-plated stainless steel runs on a polished ball bearing in a brass housing.

The 'table's power supply is separately housed. The headshell and undamped armtube are cut from a single piece of aluminum. The inverted horizontal bearings consist of two hardened stainless-steel points, but the arm's vertical tracking angle VTA is not adjustable.

The phono cable terminates in gold-plated plugs. The Ortofon cartridge outputs 4mV, tracks at 1. Finally, the Debut III has an attractive plastic dustcover. Finally, I connected the turntable to the aforementioned Marantz and Paradigm Atom v. Sure, when I lowered the needle into the groove, I did hear enough groove noise to remind me that I was playing an LP.

I did spend quite a bit of time analyzing the design of the Debut III's motor-isolation system. Pro-Ject has designed an ingenious mechanism to "float" the motor above the plinth using a rubber O-ring, and it worked quite well. The motor didn't touch the plinth, but still exerted just enough tension on the belt to turn the platter at a consistent speed. I noticed no problem with speed consistency, even when playing piano recordings.

However, when I set the needle in the runout groove, turned the volume all the way up well past ear-splitting levels , and set the platter rotating, I could hear a very faint low-level hum from the motor to tell me it was on. However, even when listening to music at loud levels, this motor noise wasn't noticeable. NEXT: Page 2 ». Log in or register to post comments.

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