Barzetti

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The Barzetti turntable: combines the precision of high mass turntable designs with fresh and attractive contemporary looks.

A stylish statement, with soft curved faces and corners, making this highly engineered turntable a thing of true beauty and built for high quality music reproduction; offering a very high level of performance for a turntable in its price range.

Using a newly designed 36mm thick (6Kg) solid turntable platter made of aluminium. Machined with a diamond cutting tool ensures the finish looks beautiful and the platter exceptionally well balanced, for optimum performance.

The bearing is the heart of every turntable. Through fundamental research and development, Acoustic Signature have invented a bearing with the ideal performance characteristics of exact fit, extremely low noise, very low friction and long term stability. The platter bearing component is manufactured from special hardened and polished steel. The bearing housing uses perfectly matched sinter bronze inserts which are self-lubricating; and therefore maintenance free. All bearings in Acoustic Signature turntables are designed to run dry - without oil.

The drive motor and its sophisticated electronic control are housed within the turntable chassis. The Alpha electronic motor controller, developed for the Barzetti, converts the incoming AC mains voltage to DC current and a precision oscillator then produces a perfect sine wave at 12VAC to run the motor, resulting in a perfectly steady and constant platter rotation.

The substantial one piece 50mm thick chassis forms the attractively designed base unit of this turntable and is finished with a 10-layered high gloss piano lacquer; the highest quality paint finish on the market with a perfect mirror-like surface in black or white.

The tone arm mounting design allows simple infinite height adjustment, making perfect horizontal arm align-ment possible for Rega arms, which can be supplied fitted. There are alternative arm base plates available for all 9 inch tone arms. Three adjustable feet enable simple macro and micro adjustments to perfectly level the turntable.

The Barzetti has evolved out of and uses design concepts incorporated throughout the Acoustic Signature turntable range: High mass platter design, very low bearing noise and friction, perfect motor drive control, and highest precision German design and engineering. This guarantees long term reliability and high performance from a fully integrated and easy to use turntable.

Reviews

A fine performer that misses out on class-leading status by the smallest of margins. It’s lovely to use and beautifully built – hear it