Fluance RT85 Reference High Fidelity Vinyl Turntable Record Player with Ortofon 2M Blue Cartridge, Acrylic Platter, Speed Control Motor, Solid Wood Plinth, Vibration Isolation Feet - Piano Black

Analyzed on

1,747Total Reviews

Turntables

B

Company Review Grade:

Fluance

112 Total Products

Fluance RT85 Reference High Fidelity Vinyl Turntable Record Player with Ortofon 2M Blue...

Analyzed on

Sold by Fluance

D

Fakespot review grade

D

This analysis is outdated. Please reanalyze.

Ask Fakespot Chat questions about this productAlpha

Initializing Fakespot Chat

System error,

Loading suggested questions

Suggested Questions

No suggested questions were found

Please note: The content is generated by an AI language model based on reviews. We are constantly improving the accuracy, however, its outputs may contain errors or offensive content from certain reviews. Please report any errors or offensive content to us. Also, please note that we will not collect your questions unless you click the thumbs up/down button to provide feedback. The answers displayed will be stored by us so if another Fakespotter asks a similar question we can provide them an answer faster. Your feedback will only help us make Fakespot Chat better! By using Fakespot Chat, you agree to Fakespot's terms of use and privacy notice.

Pros & Cons

The AI used to provide these results are constantly improving. These results might change.

Pros

Ortofon 2m blue cartridge and stylus are superb. Compliance wise, we have a better match between the denon cartridge and the fluance tonearm.

These are finicky machines and you're going to need to talk to somebody at some point. The ortofon blue is good but i also have better carts too.

My fluance rt-85 turntable, schiit mani preamp, denon avr-s540bt receiver, and klipsch rp-150m bookshelf speakers. I have it paired with the ifi zen phono stage.

It lowers the arm at a slow and gentle rate where i want it. The tonearm is a sturdy build and the lift mechanism drops gently onto vinyl. It has some nice features like auto shut off and the tone arm locking mechanism.

Was this feature helpful?

Highlights

The AI used to provide these results are constantly improving. These results might change.

Quality

Very happy it is the best turntable i have ever had and it showed up early relatively easy to set up sounds great

I love the acrylic platter for both function and aesthetics and the lack of wow and flutter with good sound to noise ratio

The only thing i could really want is the arm to return to the holder after playing an album it does shut down after about 30 s... Read More

My rating does not reflect performance of the turntable… i have to give it time to say anything but i tried one of those lps wi... Read More

Price

Great manual turntable for a reasonable price

All in all this is a fantastic turntable under 1000

Ive spend way more on equipment than actual records

The ortofon blue 2 stylus is worth about half the total cost so for the money i don’t believe you can beat this turntable

Shipping

Delivery took a little longer than anticipated due to weather conditions

To be fair the cracked dust cover could happen by amazon shipping

Packaging/appearance

Still reflection of inadequate quality control and packaging for a great turntable

Came packaged very well fluance keep up the great work

The dust cover arrived with a visible spiderweb crack

Competitiveness

Sub 500 there is no better deal or higher quality tt for the money

I honestly feel that you cant find better turntable for 499

According to many reviewers this thing punches well above its weight class and compares favorably to much more expensive devices

But the fluance preamp is good too as well as a bunch of others

Overview

How are reviewers describing this item?
great, good, blue, quality and easy.

Our engine has detected that the listing/variation has anomalous review count history. Please review the historical review count graph.

Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.

Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 57.4% of the reviews are reliable.

This product had a total of 1,747 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 23 2024.