Tag: Hi fi turntables
Clearaudio Introduce New Performance DC Turntable
Clearaudio’s recently appointed UK distributor Sound Fowndations is pleased to announce the release of the new Performance DC turntable. The Performance DC integrates a high-torque, smooth and quiet DC motor into the chassis.The motor is similar to that used in Clearaudio’s high-end Ovation and Innovation series turntables and is said to provide great speed stability […]
Goldnote Bellagio Turntable
Goldnote is an Italian High-End audio manufacturer based in Florence, Italy. They have announced their latest turntable, the Bellagio Conquest and at €48 000 it’s set to turn a few heads. The Bellagio is a high mass (165Kilos) floorstanding turntable with a 270mm platter spindle and a fully adjustable high torque motor. The spindle is […]
McIntosh Introduce MT5 Turntable
McIntosh Laboratory has launched their new MT5 turntable. Crafted using the knowledge gained from the company’s flagship MT10 turntable, the new MT5 sets out to offer an alternative vinyl playback system at a significantly lower price to the MT10. The new MT5 is supplied factory-adjusted: tracking force, anti-skate, cartridge overhang and arm height are all […]
The Orbit Turntable
Hifi Pig thought this was an interesting audiophile item on the business start-up funding site Kickstarter. It’s for a fully manual, belt-drive turntable called The Orbit which the people behind the project say is a turntable of “engineering and playback quality never before seen at the entry-level”. The turntable doesn’t have any gimmicks with the […]
Origin Live Upgrade Turntables to MK3 Status
Origin Live have announce the upgrade of their MK 2 turntables to MK3 after over 5 years. The new turntables look pretty much the same as the old ones but have “significant performance improvements”. Improved features over previous MK2 models are: New type of Acrylic platter material with reduced internal stresses. Increased thickness of platter […]
Walker Proscenium Black Diamond V Turntable
The Proscenium Black Diamond V follows on from Walker’s previous incarnation of the PBD turntable and features improvements to the air supply, record clamp and motor base assembly. In addition, a specially-treated, fine-grained crystalline material, that “reduces static build-up and cancels the effect of virtually all EMI, RFI and microwaves”, is employed at strategic locations in […]
Avid’s Ingenium Turntable Officially Launched
In early December we announced news that Avid Hifi were to launch a new turntable – the INGENIUM. Today they have confirmed the launch of the range of turntables which become their new entry-level product. Ingenium shares the design philosophy of Avid’s more expensive designs, has “true engineered audiophile quality, utilises key elements of the […]
Avid Hifi to Launch New Entry Level Turntable
Avid Hifi, the UK based high-end hifi manufacturer have announced plans to launch an entry level turntable which will be known as the Ingenium. Full details are scant at the moment but the Ingenium turntable is expected to be available for around half the cost of their Diva II -so around £800. A solid alluminium […]
Wall Mounted Turntable Shelf from Audio Suspension
Audio Suspension based in Brighton, UK are the latest company to launch contemporary hi-fi support systems, but they are taking a different approach to others we have recently run news items about. Audio Suspension have launched a wall-mount shelf, the ASU-100. The system has been designed to provide isolation from unwanted resonance, whilst offering a […]
