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Pro-Ject RPM-10 Turntable
Pro-Ject RPM-10 Winner of The Absolute Sound GOLDEN EAR AWARD
Pro-Ject RPM-10 The Absolute Sound Ediitors Choice Award 2007
Pro-Ject RPM-10 Stereophile Recommended Component, Class B
Manual turntable with 10" precision tonearm and equipment base Pro-Ject Ground it deluxe
Good sound from sound technology
Tonearm bearing comprises inverted hardened stainless tips in ABEC7 spec ballraces
Headshell and conical armtube formed from a single carbon fibre workpiece
Armtube allows adjustment of needle azimuth despite fixed headshell
Vertical tracing angle adjustable
Acrylic platter with perimeter belt drive and brass record puck
Magnet supported, inverted main bearing with ceramic thrust-pad
Central metal block optimises centre of gravity
Granulate filled plinth and equipment base for universal damping
Sorbothane-damped aluminium cones
Drive motor housed in separate base
Pro-Ject RPM-10 Turntable Features:
Pro-Ject 10cc tonearm
Nominal speeds : 33 / 45 r.p.m
Record puck
Gold-plated RCA phono sockets
Plinth and equipment base in dark grey piano-lacquer finish
Equipment base Pro-Ject Ground it deluxe supplied
Pro-Ject spirit level supplied
Pro-Ject RPM-10 Technical Data
Nominal speeds : 33 / 45 r.p.m.
Dust cover Pro-Ject Cover it optional
Record weight : yes
Motor in separate housing : yes
RCA phono sockets : yes
Sorbothane-damped aluminium cones : yes
Central metal block : yes
Granulate filled plinth : yes
Granulate filled equipment base : yes
Tonearm : Pro-Ject 10cc
Tonearm with fibre armtube and sapphire thrust-pads : yes
Effective tonearm length : 10 " (245mm)
Effective tonearm mass : 9g
Overhang : 16mm
Supplied counterweight cartridge weight : 6 - 9g
Optional counterweights cartridge weight : 7 - 11g or 10 - 15g
Downforce range : 10 - 35mN
Speed variance : ±0,5 %
Wow and flutter : ±0,01 %
Signal to noise : -73dB
Platter weight/diameter : 5,4kg/300mm
Power supply type : Mains-fed outboard power supply 220 - 240V, 50 cycles or 100 - 110V, 60 cycles
Output voltage : 16V/500mA AC
Power consumption : 2W
Dimensions ; 480 x 210 x 330mm
Dimension Ground it deluxe : 500 x 65 x 400mm (including cones) H without cones 45mm
Weight : 14,5kg + motor unit 2kg
Weight Ground it deluxe : 11,6kg
Pro-Ject RPM 10 Turntable
Ultra Audio, Jason Thorpe, April 1, 2007
The audiophile press tends to make its readers feel that if they can’t float $10k for a component, then they just can’t experience good sound. This is doubly true for turntables. While many reviewers pay lip service to inexpensive turntables such as the Rega P3 or any one of the many Pro-Ject ’tables in the same price range, they then go gaga for the latest and greatest Rube Goldberg complications, which start at the price of a small car and go up from there, through and past the luxury-wheels range.
Well, maybe they’re right and maybe they’re not. I’m betting that they’re not, because this here Pro-Ject RPM 10 tells me, in no uncertain terms, that you need only $2499 to gain access to the real high-end world of vinyl reproduction. Now excuse me while I count my pennies to see if I can swing this upgrade.
If you can stretch your budget to this level plus a good cartridge, like the Sumiko Blackbird, you will be rewarded with a surprising level of detail, bass articulation and control, and transparency. The result is a sound that sucks you further into the performance, offering blacker backgrounds, more weight and solidity in the bass, and a cleaner window onto the soundstage. The RM-10 gives one a glimpse of what a reference turntable system can do: Make you feel like the performers are in the room! - The Absolute Sound, Golden Ear Award, Jim Hannon, August 2007
All the refinements to the basic design of the RM 9.1 make the RM-10 on heck of a table-competitive with turntable systems costing twice as much. One is drawn into the music and there are those moments when it feels as if the performers are in the room. For me, that’s worth the price of admission! -Absolute Sound, Jim Hannon, June / July 2007
Immediately impressive was the RM-10’s quiet backdrop-a ‘blackness’ that permitted low-level details and micro-dynamic nuances to pour forth from the grooves…the first table from Pro-Ject that’s not merely a good value, but simply great! - Stereophile, Michael Fremer, November 2006
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