I have found that turntable designers typically fall into one of two camps. First are what I call the obsessive machinists. These are the people with impressive manufacturing chops and a sharp eye for fine detail and precision. For them, making a better turntable usually involves taking what we already know and simply doing it better.
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Vertere Acoustics has announced that its new-generation digital Tempo motor drive has now started shipping. The drive is expected to sell with the companyâs SG-1 and RG-1 turntables with SG-1 tonearms. Vertere emphasizes that the energy of music from vinyl records literally comes from the motor because it âdrives the record past the stylus.â This can affect detail, dynamics, timbre and timing, according to founder, Touraj Moghaddam.
The Tempo drive (MSRP $3,995) controls the record player motor which the company claims leads to a âsmoother drive with lower noise and lower distortion.â Its internal circuit is microprocessor-based and provides a pure sine wave in the digital domain, converted to analogue via an onboard DAC. Two waveforms are derived, a cosine and a sine, amplified using two bridged amplifiers to power t