Pro-Ject - Debut Carbon Esprit SB Turntable (Beatles 1964 edition) - White and Black

If you can get this anywhere close to the same price as the standard Debut Carbon DC, do it! This is an upgraded turntable with a much nicer acrylic platter ($129 extra) and a built in Speed Box ($129 extra). The speed box allows you to change record speed at the touch of a button rather than have to move the belt to another pulley. Also it maintains a more stable speed this way. The Beatles print is cool, but not a necessity for me. Anywhere close to $400 is a steal for this table. Normally closer to $600. BTW, the Ortofon cartridge sounds awesome! This setup with the right amplifier sounds better than CD. Much warmer with more depth to the music.

Set up my old pioneer turntable in workout room and enjoyed it so much that I thought it would be nice to have one hooked up to the home theater system. I had seen a few in stores that did not impress then got email from Best Buy about this project beatle's turntable and thought this is the one. This is by far the best turntable I have ever owned easy to set up great sound and the beatle's what else could you want highly recommend!

Very nice turntable for the price. I tried a Rega P1, had to return it because it ran too fast. The Pro-ject is dead-on speedwise, thanks to the built-in electronic speed control, and comes with a better cartridge. Setup is a snap and you're off and running within minutes. I think the Pro-ject has a better tonearm too. The Debut Carbon Esprit SB is definite bargain in this price range, and includes several upgrade tweaks (acrylic platter, speed box, etc.) that save hundreds compared to buying the basic Debut Carbon and adding upgrades later.

I was a little concerned about buying this given I have read about hum and rumble issues but experienced neither. It is a solidly built little table. I have a lower end Rega with a Sumiko Blue Point 2 so hard to compare given that Blue Point runs about the same as this table but the sound is good enough to really enjoy vinyl. I am running with a Parasound phono unit into an Audio Research LS17 to Audio Research D400IIs played through Magnepan 20.7s. I know this phono set up is not in the same league as the rest of my gear but had Best Buy gift certificates, liked the Beatles unit and not a huge vinyl guy but wanted a second turntable for main floor system.. Auto speed selection is nice, set up is easy and it is a good looking fairly hefty table for this price range. Worth a look at this price point

Awesome player. We have all vintage old school equipment so were sceptical. The first one we got unfortunately had a glitch in the needle. We called the manufacturer because we thought it might not work with our vintage equipment. They were awesome, told us to return it to Best Buy. They were also awesome, gave us a new one and WOW. the sound is so crisp.

excellent turntable. set up support on Utube makes set up easy. good design and operation. i gave it four stars because the connector cable was not gold connectors. no reason not to be packed and sold with those. beatles graphic is not a distraction at all in the design. i have around 30 hours on the red otofon and it is opening up and breaking in very will. the image and separation are very good. i recommend.

I got this on sale and with all the features that comes with it, it’s a no brainer if you are looking to buy a turntable in this price range. Add all the features it has and you will not find anything less than $700 in any brand. If you have a very good amp ($1500 price range) with a very good preamp, speaker ($1000~) and a subwoofer ($750~), you will get the most out of this turntable. Anything less will relatively diminish the sound quality. Don’t get me wrong, it will still sound good when added on any stereo system but if it doesn’t, it might not be a match with your amp/speaker. I added Q-up and now I’m all set.

Included Instructions were bad I used YouTube instead. Once I got it set up it works great. It was well packaged and protected during shipment.