Denon DP-3000NE Turntable Review

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The Denon DP-3000NE blends vintage broadcast turntable heritage with modern engineering, offering precise speed control, advanced tonearm design, and exceptional resonance damping. Designed for both audiophiles and newcomers, it delivers rich, detailed, and fatigue-free analog playback that rivals higher-priced competitors.

It's truly a no-compromise turntable built for the discerning listener, thoughtfully engineered without gimmicks and purposefully reimagined for long-term analog performance with minimal maintenance. Nearly every vital calibration parameter is available (barring azimuth on the stock head-shell), making this deck a joy to fine-tune and tailor to your system’s strengths.

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The Denon DP-3000NE blends vintage broadcast turntable heritage with modern engineering, offering precise speed control, advanced tonearm design, and exceptional resonance damping. Designed for both audiophiles and newcomers, it delivers rich, detailed, and fatigue-free analog playback that rivals higher-priced competitors.

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It's truly a no-compromise turntable built for the discerning listener, thoughtfully engineered without gimmicks and purposefully reimagined for long-term analog performance with minimal maintenance. Nearly every vital calibration parameter is available (barring azimuth on the stock head-shell), making this deck a joy to fine-tune and tailor to your system’s strengths.

Read our: Denon DP-3000NE Review

That looks to be a really nice, well thought out and built turntable. With the quality of the machining and overall build quality the price seems very much in line with that. I would suggest that most outfits would have priced it higher.

 

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I think only someone like Denon (a mass producer of hifi gear) can produce a turntable of this calibre at $2,800. If even the popular brand such as Pro-Ject, price would have been at least twice as much.

 

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AND even though they still offer some of their great moving coil cartridges, none of their integrated/preamps or AVRs have a MC preamp.

That looks to be a really nice, well thought out and built turntable. With the quality of the machining and overall build quality the price seems very much in line with that. I would suggest that most outfits would have priced it higher.

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AND even though they still offer some of their great moving coil cartridges, none of their integrated/preamps or AVRs have a MC preamp.


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Of course they do offer integrated amplifiers that have MC input preamp, just that they don't seem interested in competing with Marantz (looking after their little brother I guess) in the Americas, here's just one example:

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The PMA-SX1 Limited is a big, beautifully built, exquisitely styled integrated amp capable of outputting up to 50Wpc into 8 ohms or 100Wpc into 4 ohms. On its rear panel are one set of balanced (XLR) and four sets of single-ended (RCA) line-level inputs, and two more sets of single-ended (RCA) inputs for the built-in moving-magnet and moving-coil phono stages.

For only about US $6,000 (BEFORE Tariff, so...)

You do get as much as 50 WPC, 2 channel driven stereo, but "high current" capable lol.. If one wants their less power output integrated, one could opt for their lower models in the PMA line, Gene reviewed one of those lower end product and seem to like it, I don't remember if their have MC input, probably not, as those seemed to be listed for under $3,000.