I bought this for my Debut Carbon, which I found made the bass tighter and music much livlier. With that said, the first upgrade I would recommend for the table would be the SpeedBox. If you already have that, then I would get this as the next upgrade. This looks fantastic on my red turntable and I like the idea of being able to use MC carts in the future. Not having to use the cheapy felt platter mat is also an enormous plus!

I would not claim that this platter replacement is the best thing you can buy for your system, but I would agree that the bass is tighter and more focused. The additional benefit of being able to use moving coil cartridges on turntables with the steel platter such as the Pro-Ject Debut III is also worth considering. This Acrylic platter is quite a bit lighter than the steel platter I had on my turntable. All in all a good investment, but to the obvious improvements first (like upgrading your cartridge). Happy listening!

My setup is a HK 2650, MMF 2.2 Turntable and B&W Nautilus 805's - all tone control turned off on the HK and ONLY front stage (805's) for Turntable play.

I was expecting a significant positive difference when I installed this acrylic platter - I figured I would get the best results from my 180g albums, but to my surprise, this platter totally deadened the sound from any audiophile quality album that I played on it. I am not one to use the HK tone control filters, but I played with those a bit to see if I could get the sound stage back to where it was with the metal platter that I had replaced. No luck. My wife walked in and made comment how flat the music was and how it didn't fill the room like it had the previously. She used the perfect word to describe it; "muddy." At this point I was totally unimpressed with the platter and was ready to send it back . . .

Then I pulled out Led Zeppelin II (regular 120g) just to see what it would sound like. The difference between the metal platter and the acrylic platter hit me in the face. The sound quality of this 40 plus year old album EXPLODED. Significantly reduced popping/cracking, crisper base, stronger staging, Bonham's percussion was fuller and brighter than I have ever heard.

For me, it made my older albums sound 200% better - For higher quality, newer albums it destroyed their sonic quality. Be prepared to do some tweaking on your system if you are to use this as a full-time, all-round platter.