I bought a Project Genie 3 with a Ortofon 2M Red cartridge three weeks ago and the sound is amazing. I have been out on a spending spree at the local charity shops snapping up vinyl.
I got mine ny mail order from Audio Affair in Birmingham (they have a showroom) for �170 with the ortofon cartridge. I also bought a cork slipmat to reduce static.
Richer Sounds were selling the Genie 2 for �150 but I though it was worth the extra �20 for a better catridge even though RS is at the bottom of my street and I could have picked it up in person.
I had to send the first back because the motor had a problem and was running too slow, but no problems with it so far.
What I love about the first outing of this turntable is that the design is straight from the original concept, true to the principle of producing a turntable for not much money, and Pro-Ject got it right.
When the mk2 & 3 came out, and the price went up accordingly, I wonder if Pro-Ject haven't lost sight of the original brief, and refinements are only making minor improvements overall, but washing away the characteristics that made this little baby so appealing in the first place. It may be flawed, but of course it is at this price, but isn't trying to make improvements missing the point? Surely as the price goes up the turntable becomes comparable with lots of other turntables, and blandness is going to detract from this things character rather than make new friends. Surely at nearly £200 this turntable is no longer the turntable of choice.
I still firmly believe that the original RPM, with all it's flaws, has to remain the best and most honest version of this deck. The others just miss the point entirely because they are not better, they have just hidden the shortcomings of producing a turntable at this price, and that's just a smokescreen, like a safety-net to filter it all out and only let the blandness through.
Me? Just let it in - all of it; rough edges and all. I can take it.
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I bought a Project Genie 3 with a Ortofon 2M Red cartridge three weeks ago and the sound is amazing. I have been out on a spending spree at the local charity shops snapping up vinyl.
I got mine ny mail order from Audio Affair in Birmingham (they have a showroom) for �170 with the ortofon cartridge. I also bought a cork slipmat to reduce static.
Richer Sounds were selling the Genie 2 for �150 but I though it was worth the extra �20 for a better catridge even though RS is at the bottom of my street and I could have picked it up in person.
I had to send the first back because the motor had a problem and was running too slow, but no problems with it so far.
I have a Pro-Ject RPM1, the original Genie.
What I love about the first outing of this turntable is that the design is straight from the original concept, true to the principle of producing a turntable for not much money, and Pro-Ject got it right.
When the mk2 & 3 came out, and the price went up accordingly, I wonder if Pro-Ject haven't lost sight of the original brief, and refinements are only making minor improvements overall, but washing away the characteristics that made this little baby so appealing in the first place. It may be flawed, but of course it is at this price, but isn't trying to make improvements missing the point? Surely as the price goes up the turntable becomes comparable with lots of other turntables, and blandness is going to detract from this things character rather than make new friends. Surely at nearly £200 this turntable is no longer the turntable of choice.
I still firmly believe that the original RPM, with all it's flaws, has to remain the best and most honest version of this deck. The others just miss the point entirely because they are not better, they have just hidden the shortcomings of producing a turntable at this price, and that's just a smokescreen, like a safety-net to filter it all out and only let the blandness through.
Me? Just let it in - all of it; rough edges and all. I can take it.