ATMO SFERA™ Platterless Turntable is still in Kickstarter momentum, but quite interesting concept…
Days of horse – drawn carriages are passed, at last, but the turntable with its basic design remained the same for about a century.
To revolutionize the classic turntable design with all its drawbacks, such as heavy weight, size, playing mechanism and vulnerability to vibration and to achieve the highest sound quality we concentrated on only the vital components, using high-quality materials.
The result is an engineering masterpiece producing playback audio quality, barely surpassed even by the most sought after turntables. In ATMO SFERA Turntable there is no gimmick accessory, it is solely focused on music-making components, with the finest Italian taste for industrial design.
Here we reveal the golden key of achieving higher sound quality from a truly different design.
Imagine the turntable (EVERY turntable) as a gigantic spring; more the weight, the dimension etc. more the spring. Every spring squeezes itself to absorb energy and so does the turntable; then it releases that energy causing buzzes, noises and muddiness in the audio range. The simplest method the vast majority of the turntable designers use to avoid this is to add a huge mass, so: heavier platters, heavier turntable plinths and so on.
But -according to physics- there is a different mode to cope with those undesirable effects: to reduce energy stored into the turntable base and into the turntable platter, the interfaces to the revolving long-playing record. To achieve this goal we use a light platter, a very small, low-torque motor and leave the record freely floating (almost…) into air.
This (not so) simple trick gives to vibrations no free room to flow through the mat and the platter, virtually disappeared in our design and to reach the turntable pickup Even the most famous brands of commercial turntables in the market have not been able to solve this problem But We Have:
ATMO SFERA has the secret in its name: Atmosphere in Space. Atmosphere around us is the only Platter that does not generate energy back to the record because it uses the air as a Platter.
Turntable
• Platterless design, a unique design where the record spins in air flawlessly and smoothly
• Belt-Driven, Two speed (33/45 RPM) turntable
• Small, low torque bipolar motor, driven by a synthesized, very pure sinusoidal wave
• Microprocessor controlled operation
• Bluethoot® stereo connectivity with embedded RIAA preamplifier
Tonearm
• Carbon fiber, static balanced Tonearm
• Effective arm length: 228 mm – Arm overhang: 15 mm
Cartridge
• Pre fitted Audio Technica AT 95 E MM Cartridge
Other Features
• Low resonance, CNC machined, Anticorodal Aluminium plinth
• CNC machined Ergal Shaft
• Vibration damping feet
• No setup required with the fitted cartridge
• Dimension (base only): 12″ x 11″ x 4″ or 31 cm x 28 cm x 10 cm
• Weight: 6.5 lbs. or 2.8 Kg
• Universal Power supply: 110-240 V / 50Hz / 60Hz
Link: here
