The Signature 10 is a high-end belt-drive turntable that pairs a very heavy platter with magnetic decoupling and carries a 10-inch unipivot tonearm. It is supplied without a cartridge, for listeners who prefer to choose their own.
Signature 10: mass and magnetic suspension
The platter weighs 10.4 kg and is diamond-turned from one block of aluminium, then damped with TPE; its upper face carries a vinyl layer on which the record rests. It spins on an inverted bearing with a ceramic ball and plate, partly relieved by a magnetic suspension that lowers friction and rolling noise.
The tonearm is Pro-Ject's own design: a 10-inch unipivot with an S-shaped aluminium tube, non-magnetic low-resonance construction and an SME-mount headshell. Arm height (VTA) and mounting distance are continuously adjustable, even while a record is playing. With the set of counterweights supplied it takes cartridges from 4 to 10 g, and its effective mass is 18.5 g.
Switching between 33 and 45 rpm takes one button, and rotational stability is handled by a precision generator feeding the motor. The feet use magnetic fields to isolate the whole deck from the surface it stands on. It arrives in a wooden crate with a Connect it 5P cable, a 405 g record puck, an adapter for 7-inch singles, an Allen key, a spirit level and gloves.
Specifications
- Speeds: 33 and 45 rpm, switched electronically
- Motor control: precision generator
- Platter: aluminium with TPE damping, 10.4 kg
- Record puck: 405 g, supplied
- Bearing: inverted, ceramic ball and plate with magnetic decoupling
- Tonearm: 10-inch aluminium unipivot, SME-type headshell
- Effective length: 254.8 mm
- Overhang: 16 mm
- Arm effective mass: 18.5 g
- Cartridge weight range: 4 to 10 g using the supplied counterweights
- Arm lead: Pro-Ject Connect it 5P supplied
- Power: 15 V DC, 1600 mA supply in the box
- Standby draw: under 1 W
- Size: 475 x 195 x 354 mm, width by height by depth
- Net weight: 23 kg
- Finishes: black, olive, mahogany, satin walnut burl, high-gloss walnut burl
