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good kid maad city, if you were wondering.

Hated it for the first few hours I had it, thought no turntable would be worth that much hassle, but I've had it for nearly 2 years now and it's served me well. Only pain in the arse is that my counterweight seems to fall off (and down the back of my desk) every week and I spend 10 minutes finding it.

looks like I imagined the bit of plastic as mine looks exactly the same as yours. Also, I think you are meant to tighten your counterweight on as it's not meant to fall off haha.

I'm pulling my hair out over mine right now, I've had it since Jan 2012 and gone through various phases of loving/hating it.

For months its been fine, playing beautifully and used several times a week. Now it's being a fucking dickslap again and just sounding really distorted every now and then. I'm sure its to do with the way the tone arm sits because it doesn't have a removable catridge to 'calibrate' and the stylus is fine. Gonna take it to a hifi specialist and see what they think, it's nuts.

I got a new turntable at the end of last year, and it was a toss up between the Project Essential and the Rega RP1. Both were about the same price (though I think the Rega was maybe very slightly more) and in all the reviews I read on them, there seemed to be nothing between them in terms of build and sound quality. In the end I went for the Rega as the whole counterweight thing on the Project seemed like a bit of a faff, and I simply preferred the look of it (I wasn't keen on the band running round the outside of the turntable.

In the end, I think I made the right choice going by this thread! The Project just seems like too much hard work...