Pro-Ject Audio Systems
The Classic
with 2M Blue Cartridge
(Made In Europe)
(Satin Black)

Classic look and
innovative high-end technology

This turntable makes use of traditional frame design which was established by the famous turntable manufacturers of the 50s and 60s. It uses a compact simple and elegant form factor. The Classic incorporates a combination of approved belt drive designs using a low-noise AC motor with an ultra-precision frequency DC-driven AC generator for ultimate speed stability. Advanced technology is used for decoupling and the completely newly designed tonearm.

Chassis & subchassis

Like our famous Debut we wanted to create an easy-to-use “plug & play” product, but with better sound due to
better isolation. Thanks to the modern damping materials TPE* we are able to design a very effective, sub chassis construction. Isolating the platter and tonearm from the resonances of the motor and main plinth is the target.

Platter & sub-platter
The heavy aluminium main platter construction utilises advanced thermoplastic elastomers (TPE*) for optimising resonance behaviour. A drawback of most of the old designs was the platter. Casted platters all have been heavy (which is good for speed constancy and low wow and flutter) but suffered very much from ringing effects which again caused colouration of the sound. The platter of The Classic is precisely machined out of a special aluminium alloy again damped with TPE*, which offers special damping abilities. The sub platter / main bearing construction we use is a similar system as on the Debut. It is made of hardened steel/ Bronze bushing/ Teflon bearing mirror, which results in very smooth low noise running smoothness of the bearing.

The main difference to the Debut bearing is the tolerances which are by factor 10 lower and therefore more precise (0,005%). Especially the sub platter is a very sophisticated part which is accurately machined and guarantees very good isolation between bearing noise and the platter itself.

New carbon/aluminium tonearm
The radical newly designed Classic tonearm is the result of 25 years of experience in mechanical construction. The tonearm tube is made out of a sandwich of carbon and aluminium: carbon for stiffness and speed, alu for better damping. The Cardan bearing assembly with pin-point zircon bearing provides ultra-low friction. A new expensive Japanese base-ball-bearing allows a better lead of the tonearm wire and increases the free movement of the arm. The counterweight incorporates a TPE* damper which allows us to reduce the amplitude of the tonearm cartridge resonance frequency by 50%. As typical for Pro-Ject and absolutely not standard at that price range we offer also azimuth and VTA adjustment to use a variety of cartridges. Different counterweights for cartridges up to 25 grams are available as an option. We supply as standard the Ortofon 2M Blue moving magnet cartridge. However, as the tonearm offers excellent damping and flexibility as well, its effective mass can be called middle heavy, so it is also a very good partner for MC cartridges.

• Contact : Dicky Ng 012-3308893
• Contact : John Yew 016-2861000
• Email    : [email protected]