Quote Originally Posted by maxg
Almost forgot:

Some reviews???

http://202.186.86.35/audio/printerfr...&sec=audiofile
(RPM 4)
http://www.audioenz.co.nz/2003/project_rpm9.shtml
(RPM 9)
http://www.hifichoice.co.uk/review_print.asp?ID=2544
(RPM 6)

Let me know if you want more - needless to say none of them agree with your assessment.
I missed the TAS , stereophile or other reliable review, I just see two reviews from the pacific rim by vinyl newbies, and this:

"The RPM 6 It might not be quite as detailed and as tonally neutral as the turntable used as reference point...Perhaps it lacks the brilliant finish and the last level of information retrieval of the SME, perhaps it isn't quite as musical as a Linn LP12 or have as much deep bass as a Nottingham Analogue or a VPI."

That doesn't say it's great, or big league, it just says it's good, and no match for high end at all. I paid $1150 for my lp-12, ittok arm and k-18 cart. That's about the same as an RPM 9, and yet is galactically better. So the price references are worthless due to the amount of used LP-12's since 1972. If I was gonna spend a grand, I'd not waste it on a project. The review above could as well be of a Rega P-3/rb300/super elys cart. Not bad, not big league. IOW the RPM 6 is not in the class of high end. It's a good middle of the road player. You can do home mods all day long, but that makes it no more of a pro-ject product than a Nascar racer is a production consumer Chevrolet.

The Hi-fi choice guys were oogling the SME, Michell and Rega products at the Bristol show, not the project line. They say different things in person than in print. You really think the author of the review would want an RPM-6 over a VPI jr? dream on.