![]() Even well regarded, positively reviewed turntable models didn’t perform well when we measured them. When we started our journey, we discovered that many solutions used by turntable manufacturers for decades where not really very effective and in some cases introduced their own set of challenges. Once these insights are understood, the next objective was to find ways of minimising the sources of resonance and eliminating how they are propagated throughout the turntable. We also made some ground-breaking discoveries about how the vinyl record itself interacts with these energies. Furthermore, the turntable also acts as a physical eco-system where resonance moves through the various parts and interacts with itself. building, floor, sound waves, etc) and some from the electrical systems (eg, power supplies, control circuitry, etc). motor, bearing, platter, etc), some from the environment (eg. Our research indicated that some resonance originated from the mechanical systems of the turntable (eg. At Döhmann Audio, we have spent a lot of time using sophisticated test equipment to measure the resonance profiles of common turntable designs because in order to improve the performance of a turntable, you must first have an accurate understanding of where the resonance is generated and how it behaves. The first step in designing a high quality turntable is to carefully measure where is this unwanted energy is coming from and how does it move through the system. This unwanted energy can be heard as distortion, smear, added harmonics, channel imbalances and these types of sonic phenomena often obscure the micro details within the recording as well as add a colouration to the music. However, in practice there is a lot of energy moving through a turntable system that the stylus picks up in addition to the vibrations associated with the grooves that it is designed to do. For that to happen the stylus needs to operate in an environment that is free of any vibrational energy & resonance that is not a result of its interaction with the grooves. The shape and cut of the grooves contain an immense amount of information and the objective of any quality analog music system is to interpret this information as accurately as possible. ![]() ![]() When a stylus moves through the grooves of a record, it converts vibrational energy into an electric signal. The Helix One Mk3 is engineered to deliver unparalleled performance in analogue playback and is the result of many years of research, development, collaboration and listening by internationally acclaimed analogue designer Mark Döhmann and his team. ![]()
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