Acoustic Signature Ascona NEO

Welcome to the abso­lute top of the world! With its supreme quiet­ness and explo­sive dyna­mics, with its gene­rous 3D-ima­ging and its fine sense for details, the Ascona NEO is at the peak of what is soni­cally and techni­cally feasible. This high mass turn­table not only opens up a new era in our long com­pany history: for many analog lovers the Acoustic Signature Ascona NEO will end a long search.

Acoustic Signature AVC:
The Automatic Vibration Control

The vision of an Auto­matic Vibration Control was long born before the plan­ning of our NEO series. During the deve­lop­ment of our new turn­table gene­ration we found it was the right time to bring our ideas to life: The high-quality AC motors that drive our turn­tables are cons­truc­ted with 2 coils and 24 poles. To make the coils rotate, they are fed with a sine wave and a 90° phase-shifted signal. Read More

Acoustic Signature CLD:
Constraint Layer Damping

Constraint Layer Dam­ping (CLD) is a mecha­nical engi­nee­ring method for the absorp­tion or mini­mi­zation of vibra­tions. In audio compo­nents CLD techno­logy is usually imple­mented by using sand­wich designs that ’embed’ a damping material layer between mate­rials that do not them­selves have suffi­cient dam­ping proper­ties. A cart­ridge will only track a record unaffec­ted, if it finds a quiet sur­face without reso­nance inter­feren­ces. Accor­dingly, it is neces­sary to deve­lop vibration-free chassis and platter designs – this must be done in addi­tion to the reso­nance-reducing mea­sures for motors, drive and bea­ring cons­truc­tion. Read More