Usually there is one balancing weight placed on the back of the arm and one adjusts tracking force by moving it along this back part of arm tube. Tracking force adjustment is also performed in a different way that usually. To mount this arm on Triple X one has to use an additional element between arm and deck that also allows VTA adjustment. Despite three-point mounting there is still no VTA adjustment. It was designed using 3D CAD & CAM, which allowed to design a tonearm tube of similar dimensions as the one of RB-300, that at the same time is more rigid despite even thinner walls. RB-303 is crafted in even more precise way, and it uses a three-point mounting.
Until today 400 000 pieces of RB300 were sold. It's predecessor, RB300, premiered in 1983 after a long development process that allowed Rega to master a process of pressure casting of tubes with variable diameter and different wall thickness. It's a one piece (tube + headshell + bearing housing) high-pressure die-cast. Since the version we received for this review was the very basic one, it was equipped with an OEM version of Rega RB-303, with anti-skating taken from RB-202, a successor of Rega's the biggest sales hit - RB-300. They also announced a top high end arm, TA-9000, that, according to the information presented by Adam Smith in his review of TA-1000, would cost around 14 000 GBP (Adam Smith, Acoustic Signature TA-1000, „Hi-Fi News & Record Review”, April 2014, Vol 60 No. But finally they presented their first tonearm, model TA-1000, available in three lengths: 9” (4200 PLN), 10” (4600 PLN) and 12” (5000 PLN). They simply focused on delivering best possible decks. They didn't even modify arm from other brands for their own purposes. Not long ago Acoustic Signature belonged to group of deck manufacturers who didn't offer own tonearms. It premiered in 2013 during High End in Munich. Triple X, same as all turntables made by this manufacturer, was made in Germany.
The deck received for test was using a tonearm base for Rega RB303. It can host tonearms of 9, 10 and 12 inches, which is possible due to a removable aluminum tonearm base somewhat similar to the ones used by Dr Feickert. The German turntable is much heavier than any Pro-Ject – it weight between 46 and 55 kg, depending on the version and it should be handled by two people. This deck is not particularly big and it reminded me of Pro-Ject's Classic and Signature models, and larger Dr Feickert Analogue decks. Together these three layer constitute a 70mm thick chassis. „Triple X” came in fact from three layers of three different materials that were used in chassis – MDF, aluminum and steel. There are four colors of upper surface to choose from, and three colors of chassis. One can choose one of many available finishes. It looks different than other models from this manufacturer, as it gives Triple X a more classic look – a rectangular shape and either wood veneer, or lacquer finish. The name came from the design of the chassis of this deck.
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It creates a bed for a very hard tungsten ball, that is integrated with a steel axis. Tidorfolon is an alloy of vanadium, Teflon and titanium is relatively soft, but at the same time particularly resistant to abrasion. The bearing made of Tidorfolon is another key element of this deck. And so this turntable sports an electronic PS with Electronic Beta DIG circuit based on a quartz oscillator that generates 50 Hz sinusoidal current for external synchronous motor. For this test distributor delivered basic version with 50mm tall platter that weights 11 kg without any inserts.Īnother element that Mr Gunther Frohnhöfer considers very important, is power supply. Platter itself was heavy, tall, and in the more expensive models it also sported additional, brass inserts („Silencer”), that increased its inertia and lowered resonances The model under review is available with three different versions of platter – made of soft aluminum block, with 8 inserts and with 24 inserts. Especially their shape was quite memorable – it was obvious that manufacturer tried to minimize the size of chassis and to integrate it, visually, with platter. He two models I already reviewed – the Challenger Mk3 for „Audio”, and Storm for “High Fidelity” proved to be a proper showcase of Acoustic Signature's achievements.
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