Fluance RT85N Turntable with Nagaoka MP-110 Cartridge, Acrylic Platter, Speed Control, and Vibration Isolation - Piano Black

Decided to get a turntable to listen to my hundreds of LPs from the 70's. Did a lot of research and landed on ordering the Fluance RT85N. It had great reviews and the product delivered. The turntable was straight forward to set up using the included instructions. Fluance has a setup video on their product web site that walks through the setup. It was very easy to connect to my Denon receiver and sounds fantastic. The Nagaoka MP-110 Stylus Nagaoka MP-110 stylus sounds great. It is warm, with great detail, and wonderful imaging. Reviewers say the Ortofon 2M Blue sounds brighter. Choice of cartridge is subjective and depends on what sound you prefer. I am very pleased with the sound of Nagaoka stylus. A couple of reviewers mentioned they preferred the Nagaoka MP-110 stylus for an older record collection. The turntable itself is very easy to use. Prefer the semi-automatic behavior of stopping at end of record. Brought life back to my albums that I haven't listened to in over 30 years. Couldn't be more pleased with the turntable.

Awesome record player worth the cost. This is real record player. I hooked it to my amp and speakers and sounds great. I had to redo the balance on the arm after some scratching and static pops but now works excellent. Easy fix I missed at set up.

Outstanding value. Wish I woulda picked this up a few months ago before the price increase. (Pretty sure it’s a tariff thing cuz these were at 499.00 forever- which is a steal.) I opted for the Bamboo finish 85N (Nagaoka cartridge) which fits my listening ear better. All the reviews and feedback are on point. This is a solid unit, sounds beautiful and looks the part.

The last time I bought a new turntable was back in 1976. All my others were "used", but good ones. I now have 5, Yeah, overkill. So I thought why not a new one. So I looked around and found this one and pulled the trigger. This was going to come in in about 6-7 days after the order. It was two days! TT was packed very well. Just a beautiful turntable,(walnut). After putting everything together it did take some time to level the unit, not hard but did take some time. Then, balancing to tone arm. That can be a challenge. Take your time. The least little move can do a lot. After it is done you are good to go. Please note at the end of the record the tone arm will not return to the stand,,you will have to do that. I was so glad the cartridge is pre-mounted. The acrylic platter is something I have never had before. It is so neat looking and they recommend don't use a mat. The sound is really good. You can use the cables they give you or use ones you may think are better. Note this however, you need to get the unit as vibration free as you can. May need to use trial and error to get it right. All in all a very good unit so far. And yes, it does seem that I hear details in the music that ether I had not paid attention to before or did not really hear. So enjoy!

I don't know what the standard platter would sound like, but this acrylic looks great and the Nagaoka cartridge is excellent. I almost went with the other version with the Ortofon Blue but chose this because I read on multiple forums: 1. The blue ortofon can sound overly crisp, detailed and might "fatigue" the ears. 2. The ortofon blue stylus (needle) can cost twice as much $204 at replacement time as the Nagaoka $70 and I plan to replace the stylus every 300 hours or two years. I don't plan on changing the entire cartridge, but will upgrade my speakers and even get a pre-amp maybe... before I then upgrade to a fancier cartridge. 3. The Nagaota gets so much praise for its warmer sound and decent bass. 4. BUT this all depends on your "vinyl-chain": the amp or receiver you use and the speaker quality so its all subject to these and subjective too. I get no wow and flutter (I have good ears and would hear it) and I don't get any sibilance from the needle. My old vinyl that has been in the back room for 25 years now sounds amazing in my new "vinyl room" (the old sun-room). It was fun watching youtube vids on what to expect to set up the tone arm and antiskate, easy. The 3 rubber feet work fine, I have no issues with the unit just turning off when record side is finished. At least it does not spin and get kicked out to respin again. It's fine for the needle to gently stay there if I walk away and return. I don't have any 45's and certainly no 78's so having 33 and 45 speeds are fine. I don't need a system or cartridge and needle that will play exotic mono and 78's when I have 50 years worth of 33 1/3 to play. The lift arm (I believe it's hydraulic) works perfectly: it lifts all the way and slowly comes down as expected. The tone arm is fine, but where the arm lock or holder clips over the arm, it is tight and the black has rubbed off very slightly. I might use a sharpie to dab it someday if it gets noticeable. I would not say (as others have) that this means it's a "lower quality tonearm", I feel it's fine and the tone arm gears and general feel is fine. If I really wanted a carbon-straight arm, I would have spent another $150 for those other brands but I was really pushing this at $500, so I'm really happy.

Amazing turn table. Sounds fantastic with the Fluance standing speakers, which fills a large room with high ceilings. Set up instructions were clear. Function and form are top notch. Excellent brand. This was a first for me, just a newbie, but a lot of research lead me to this option and I’m happy. The clear dust cover stretch easily, but other than that no complaints.

I bought this to replace an Altec Lansing turntable which was fully auto with BT, i had replaced the original stylus for an elliptical on that unit and it sounded very nice but i was looking for more. Enter the Fluance rt85n, I wasn’t looking to be hammered with a sterile soundscape and the word warm drew me to this unit. I’ve burned it in for 20 or so hours and am very very pleased with this unit.I have a nice collection of records and it is handling all of them with ease. I am hearing much more detail in the music, instead of harmonies being blended together it is easy to hear the individual performers in their own space rather than a blend of voices in one spot. While warm is an apt description for the sound, that word does not do it justice, it has solid defined bass balanced well against a beautiful midrange and high end. I am reliving my first exposure to high end audio and am loving the old school vinyl experience, my setup does have Bluetooth to stream music from my phone, but the sound of well cared for vinyl is a much more engaging experience, I have to get off my ass and flip the LP. I have been adding a lot of pre-owned music to my collection and am surprised by how well this unit handles all of the $1.00 albums that have found their way into my collection. I have found that giving even a brand new album will deal with dirty grooves. A tiny spec of dust in the groove will cause a loud pop in the performance but a good deep clean have removed all those annoying pops, I’ve read of others having a similar issue and replacing the stylus with the next model up to deal with it, but cleaning is working for me. I had bought a copy of Yes - Close to the Edge which had several pops on both sides and after a good deep clean they all went bye bye. I highly recommend this unit it brings a lot to the party and was super easy to install and set up, as you can see in the pics my EQ setting are nearly flat and I am getting bottom end that can be felt without the boomies. My friends are commenting about how good my setup sounds and these are folks who have never used at turntable before.

Great turntable and Cartridge combo - very rich and warm sound!