Fluance RT85N
One-minute review Canadian audio specialist Fluance has the latest in the ‘variation on a theme’ that all turntable brands indulge in - it’s the RT85N. It’s an attractive-looking record player and is supplied with a pre-fitted (and very acceptable) Nagaoka cartridge. It’s simple to set up, and has some operational niceties in the form of auto start/stop and automatic speed-change. Jump to Price and availability Design Audio performance Should I buy it? So far, so good. However, the Fluance RT8N has significant competition, and it doesn’t have the audio chops to stave off rival record players . The turntable does good work with soundstaging and dynamics, but the low frequencies are too prominent. ‘Bass’ is the overriding aspect of the Fluance’s sound, and it undermines its competence where detail retrieval and all-around organization is concerned. Too much of a good thing is too much, it turns out - and there are any number of price-comparable rivals that are more even-han...