Marantz TT15 Reference Turntable

This Table is Gorgeous and it Sounds Even Better than it Looks!

Marantz really hit the nail on the head with their brand new turntable package, the Marantz TT-15! Designed by Marantz and built for them by Clearaudio (we’re pretty sure you noticed the design similarities).You get a contoured acrylic table with an outboard motor, an very thick acrylic platter on an inverted bearing, special anti-resonance feet and a sophisticated tonearm with an Ebony armwand. To make this analog package an even better value, the TT-15 comes complete with a$1500 Clearaudio Virtuoso Ebony Wood Cartridge; one of the best sounding MM cartridges ever made! We fell in love at first sight...and at first listen, we were even more impressed. You just cannot get more for your money!

• Low-Resonance High-Density Acrylic Chassis and Platter
• Floating Motor Mount Construction
• Non-Servo Controlled Type AC Motor
• Belt Drive System with Endless Silicon Belt
• Anodized Aluminum Straight Type Tone Arm
• Magnetic Type Anti-Skating Mechanism
• Fine Adjustable Counter Weight
• Solid Aluminum 3 points Support Feet
• Ebony Base High Quality MM Cartridge
• “Clever Clamp” by Souther Engineering

“The [Marantz] TT-15S1 is basically an upgraded Clearaudio Emotion…Clearaudio has upped its level of fit’n’finish. The TT-15S1 has an attractive, jewel-like appearance that’s pleasing to the touch. It also proved to be a more than competent performer, quiet and surprisingly well damped. The real star of the show is the supplied Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood Ebony cartridge (output 3.3mV), which gives the TT-15 a startlingly full, coherent, dynamic sound. The cartridges overall tonal picture was remarkably coherent from top to bottom.”
- Michael Fremer, Stereophile, June 2006

“The Marantz combo is a lot closer to more expensive ensembles than one might expect – everything is well executed and, and remarkably so at the price. The [TT-15] is outstanding, nearly unique even, in its ease and accuracy of set-up. This system is clean-tracking, low in distortion, detailed, low in noise and high in resolution, pitch stable and musically agreeable. I do not see how one could ask for a lot more at this price!”
- Robert E. Greene, The Absolute Sound, January 2007