![]() ![]() This massive turntable features an outboard, crystal-controlled power supply and a black-anodized aluminum two-piece platter that weighs almost 31lb and has a weighted rim (producing a flywheel effect), a gently convex, inlaid-PVC top surface, and a decoupled spindle. (Vol.40 No.10 WWW)ĪMG Viella Forte Engraved: $25,000 without arm, $32,000 with 12JT tonearm Herb recommends avoiding lean, analytical-sounding cartridges, including AMG's own Teatro-his best results with the Giro G9 were with the notably colorful EMT TSD 75-and advises the user to consider upgrading the AMG player with a third-party isolation base. According to HR, the "Apollonian" Giro G9 was "completely adept at recovering and sorting out complex music" he praised in particular its "detailed" and "well articulated" bass. That motor isn't outwardly visible-at first glance, the Giro might be mistaken for a direct-drive turntable-but is hidden underneath, driving the platter from a point inside its rim by means of a thin rubber belt. The Swiss-made AC motor is electronically controlled, with switch-selectable speeds of 33.3 and 45rpm. The turntable comprises a 1.75"-thick Delrin platter whose bearing is mounted on a circular aluminum plinth, itself 1.5" thick. The Giro G9 is an AMG Giro turntable bundled with the same company's 9W2 tonearm (see elsewhere in Recommended Components). It's as much reliable test instrument as supreme carrier of unassuming musical pleasure." (Vol.43 No.2) (Without the latter, the AFO Premium sells for $145,000.) Auditioned with a Graham Engineering Elite tonearm, the AFO Premium impressed MF with "its ultraquiet backgrounds, the generosity of its presentation of instrumental sustain and decay, its neutral spectral balance, and dynamic presentation. ![]() MF's review sample also featured an optional titanium upper platter. Now MF has auditioned the Premium version of same, which betters the original AFO with a motorized air pump and automatic, continuous pressure-monitoring system for its air-suspension mechanism. The standard version of the TechDAS Air Force One turntable was awarded an A+ and sat atop these ratings for six years. TechDAS Air Force One Premium: $162,000 w/titanium upper platter This allowed previously overwhelmed, blurred, and buried instruments to emerge in a clarified mix that produced greater musical excitement and zero listening fatigue." MF concluded that the SAT XD1 with the CF1-09Ti tonearm (€76,000 when purchased with the turntable) was the best-sounding, best-engineered, best-built turntable he's had in his system to date. They were smaller, deeper, far more powerful, and controlled the attack, sustain, and decay occurred on time. The result, with SAT's CF1-9Ti tonearm, was better than with MF's long-term reference turntable, the Continuum Caliburn: "With the SAT 'table, every drum and bass element was in its place for the first time-ever. ![]() The platter's top layer is made from a "proprietary advanced technical polymer infused with carbon-fiber micro powder and UHM carbon nanotubes." The XD1's price includes a custom, low-profile, Minus K–based "negative stiffness" isolation platform, and the control electronics are housed in an outboard chassis machined from a single block of aluminum that sits on 10Hz-and-up isolation feet. Marc Gomez focused on isolation from external disturbances, speed stability, rigidity, and vacuum hold-down. This extraordinary and extraordinarily expensive Swedish turntable begins life as a Technics SP-10R direct-drive motor system, which is stripped down to a handful of essential components, reimagined, reengineered, and rebuilt to much higher mechanical standards. ![]()
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