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Herb recommends avoiding lean, analytical-sounding cartridges, including AMG's own Teatrohis best results with the Giro G9 were with the notably colorful EMT TSD 75and 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 visibleat first glance, the Giro might be mistaken for a direct-drive turntablebut 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 1/ 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). The results, per Mikey, are greater speed consistency and 'far more substantial' bass.

In particular, the interface between the upper and lower chassis has been upgraded to a magnetic-repulsion system that 'floats' the former, for greater isolation, and the single drive belt has been replaced by three belts, each of a different Shore hardness.

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MF concluded that the 'ingeniously designed, superbly machined and constructed' Ascona Mk.2 distinguished itself by excelling 'where music livesin the midrange,' although its overall performance was 'on the polite side.' In 2017, Acoustic Signature applied to the Ascona Mk.2 some refinements that MF described as 'audible, measurable, and significant,' and which the company offers free of charge to those who've already purchased the earlier version. After using the Ascona Mk.2 with his SAT tonearm and with the 9' version of Acoustic Signature's own TA-9000 arm, MF found the turntable to be 'pleasingly rich in the midrange and delicately drawn in terms of attack, sustain, and decay' of notes. 5 & 6 belt-drive turntable are separate upper and lower chassis, both machined from aluminum the lower chassis is home to three electronically controlled AC motors, while the upper holds an adjustable tonearm support, a platter bearing with a Tidorfolon thrust plate, and an appropriately massive platter fitted with 30 brass damping cylinders: Acoustic Signature's signature Silencers. Referring to his longtime reference 'table-arm combination, MF observed that 'the Classic Direct with its JMW Memorial 3D-printed 12' tonearm comes as close to the Caliburn's sound as has any turntable, and for less than one-fifth the price.' Quibbles: MF wondered if even greater performance could be had with a more sophisticated plinth, and lacked enthusiasm for the model's peripheral platter clamp. To this, Weisfeld has mated a version of his tried-and-true JMW unipivot tonearm updated in both mechanical design and materials choice, this one a seamless resin creation whose existence would not have been possible even five years ago.

The platter and drive system (combined weight: 27 lb) are snugged into an aluminum-and-MDF plinth measuring 23.5' wide by 17.5' deep.

For VPI's Classic Direct, designer Harry Weisfeld selected a $4000 ( his cost) Thin Gap motor, servo-controlled by a custom-designed active-feedback loop, which he combined with an 18-lb platter machined from a single billet of aluminum. VPI Classic Direct turntable: $30,000 including tonearm ★Ī brand-new, US-made direct-drive turntablein the 21st Century? Believe it.