Component catalog

The Bastoni Panel is an acoustic treatment product made by Acoustic Sciences Corporation for ambience alignment at the front and rear walls of high-performance, high-power audio playback rooms. The Bastoni product line includes small panels and smaller versions sized to drop into acoustic-tile ceiling T-bar grids or be flush-mounted to walls. This is a legacy product and is no longer manufactured.

The Maximus NEO is a compact, German-made belt-drive turntable from Acoustic Signature's NEO series, built around a quiet AC motor with an external multi-voltage power supply and a substantial anodized-aluminum platter for mass-loaded speed stability. It is designed to accept a single 9-inch tonearm and is often sold as a package with Acoustic Signature's own TA-1000 NEO arm and MCX3 cartridge.

The Acoustic Signature TA-5000 NEO is a high-end pivoted tonearm available in 9-inch and 12-inch versions, using a triple-layer carbon armtube with specially designed damping elements and a rigid stainless-steel tonearm axis. Its gimbal arrangement employs pre-tensioned SKF hybrid ball bearings made of ceramic and stainless steel, with internal 4N high-purity silver wiring. The tonearm provides adjustable VTA and azimuth, an anti-skating knob, a brass counterweight, SME-style mounting, and an external Atlas Equator 5-pin-to-RCA phono cable.

The Acoustic Signature TA-7000 NEO is a 9- or 12-inch tonearm with a super-rigid, conically shaped carbon armtube featuring internal 3D damping and pre-tensioned high-precision ball bearings. It uses a stainless-steel tonearm axis, 4N high-purity silver internal wiring, adjustable VTA and azimuth, anti-skating control, SME-style mounting, and an external 1.5 m Atlas Equator 5-pin phono cable with RCA or XLR connectors. The 9-inch version has a 239.3 mm effective length, 222 mm mounting distance, 10.2 g effective mass, and 17.3 mm overhang; the 12-inch version has a 309 mm effective length, 295.8 mm mounting distance, 13.9 g effective mass, and 13.2 mm overhang.

The Acoustic Signature Verona NEO is a belt-drive turntable with two integrated, insulated AC motors, speed fine adjustment, and an external DMC-20 digital motor controller with AVC Level 3 and a 100–260 V AC power supply. It uses a high-precision Dura Turn Diamond bearing, a 310 mm × 50 mm anodized-aluminum platter with eight silencer modules, and a 65 mm MDF/steel/plywood sandwich chassis incorporating CLD damping. The chassis supports up to two 9–12-inch tonearms on mounting boards and is decoupled by three height-adjustable gel-damped aluminum feet; dimensions are 544 × 449 × 166 mm and weight is 33 kg.

Designed by D.D. Brakemeier, the Axiom is a 12-inch reference tonearm from German boutique manufacturer Acoustical Systems, using a titanium/carbon-composite arm wand with internal liquid damping and a double-gimbal bearing built from aerospace-grade German ball bearings; every unit is assembled, tested, and calibrated by the designer himself in Germany, exemplifying a genuinely small-batch, hand-finished production model (Acoustical Systems).

The Palladian is a moving-coil cartridge from Acoustical Systems, a small German analog specialist (led by designer Dietrich Brakemeier) best known for precision tonearms and geometry tools, with the Palladian cartridge line hand-finished in-house using a tempered aluminum cantilever and Q4 Shibata EVO stylus.

Audio Intelligent Vinyl Solutions is a small, in-house record-cleaning-fluid formulator run out of Osage Audio Products LLC in Hallsville, Missouri by owner Jim Pendleton, shipping "hundreds of bottles a week" rather than mass-retail volumes; Formula No.15 is a two-enzyme, two-plant-detergent soak formula intended as a first-step pre-cleaner for heavily soiled records.

Handsome mid-line Akai with GX heads, three-motor transport and bidirectional playback, a staple of late-1970s hi-fi systems. Typically needs pinch rollers, capacitor work and switch cleaning after four decades.

Akai's flagship consumer deck with long-life glass-and-crystal GX heads, direct-drive capstan and bidirectional playback. GX heads rarely wear out, but transport logic, idlers and lamp/meter electronics benefit from professional restoration.

Der AMG Giro / 9W2 ist ein riemengetriebener Plattenspieler mit einer 33 mm starken, schwarz eloxierten Aluminiumzarge, einem 40 mm starken POM-Plattenteller und einem Schweizer Gleichstrommotor mit verdecktem Rundriemenantrieb. Das geschlossene hydrodynamische Tellerlager arbeitet mit dauerhaftem Ölvorrat; der 229 mm lange 9W2-Tonarm besitzt eine spielfreie Vertikallagerung über zwei senkrechte, 0,5 mm starke Biegestifte sowie Nadellager für die horizontale Führung. VTA, Azimut und magnetisches Antiskating sind einstellbar, die effektive Tonarmmasse beträgt gut 9 g; Abmessungen und Gewicht liegen bei 430 × 149 × 315 mm und 11,5 kg.

The Viella 12 (V12) was AMG's debut turntable, an unsuspended, mass-loaded, belt-driven design CNC-machined in-house from aircraft-grade aluminum, integrating a proprietary 12" tonearm with a helicopter-rotor-inspired dual-pivot bearing (The Absolute Sound review; Stereophile). Its origins trace to an earlier prototype shown under the Roeschlau-Lorenzi name at Munich High End 2010 (Stereophile).

The Ampex ATR-102 is a legendary American professional 2-track mastering tape recorder introduced in the mid-1970s, used to master countless classic albums and still considered a benchmark for analog tape sound; it accepts interchangeable head blocks for 1/4", 1/2", or 1" tape widths and offers four selectable speeds (reeltoreeltech.com; analogsoundware.com). Original units are no longer manufactured but are actively remanufactured and supported by specialist shops that supply new transports, heads, and electronics (MDI PrecisionMotorWorks).

The TP-1000 is a playback-only, two-track quarter-inch reel-to-reel deck designed and hand-built in Brittany, France, by Christophe Martinez, combining a touchscreen-controlled transport with strain-gauge tape-tension sensing and Studer-spec (AM Belgium) playback heads (The Absolute Sound).

The Ansuz Record Stabilizer D-TC is a 750-gram record stabilizer manufactured by Ansuz, primarily intended for turntables without floating suspension. It uses a mechanically tuned tantalum-and-bronze composite metal construction with a surface coating consisting of a tantalum layer followed by diamond and carbon, applied using Hi-PIMS. The stabilizer rests on 12 titanium interlayer balls and is designed to avoid direct mechanical contact with the turntable’s center pin.

The Ansuz Record Stabilizer T2 is a turntable record stabilizer made by Ansuz. It uses a solid titanium construction with 12 titanium interlayer balls, a glass-blasted surface treatment, and a center-pin design that avoids direct mechanical contact. It weighs 375 g (0.8 lb) and measures 88.8 × 26.7 mm (3.50 × 1.05 inches).

The Ansuz Acoustics Darkz T2 Supreme (T2S) is a record stabilizer for turntables, manufactured by Ansuz Acoustics. It is machined from solid Grade 2 titanium and weighs 374 grams; its surface is coated with layers of zirconium, tungsten, and aluminum titanium nitride. A slightly oversized POM bushing decouples it from the turntable center pin, while titanium resonance-controlling balls provide its contact with the record.

The Garrard 301 Statement is a comprehensive, hand-executed restoration and re-engineering of the classic English Garrard 301 idler-drive mechanism, built to order by Artisan Fidelity's small California-based workshop with a solid billet-aluminum chassis and a modular multi-metal platter system.

Artisan Fidelity is a small US boutique restoration shop run by Christopher Thornton, best known for rebuilding and refinishing vintage Garrard, Technics, Lenco, and Thorens turntables; its CNC-milled aircraft-aluminum record clamp is a direct-order accessory made in-house in the same small-batch operation, not a mass-distributed product.

The Vinyl Cleaner Premium is Audio Desk Systeme's current flagship fully automatic ultrasonic record cleaner, distinct from the earlier Pro X2 model, built around the company's newly developed in-house "Silent Core One" drive motor. It cleans and dries both sides of an LP simultaneously in a single, one-button cycle, combining ultrasonic cavitation with bi-directional microfiber cleaning barrels and a higher-pressure rinse, then dries with filtered air in roughly 50% less time than the prior generation.