Veteran Turntable Designer Touraj Moghaddam Introduces The Dynamic Groove Record Player
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Yes, the megabuck turntables and other costly products get the most attention, but the introduction of a circa $4000 "plug'n'play" turntable from Vertere struck me among the most significant debuts at High End Munich 2019.
Mr. Moghaddam's designs for his previous company Roksan are well-known as are his costly ones for Vertere. On this video he explains the difficulties involved in designing high performance for low cost, which is arguably a more difficult task.
The Dynamic Groove is a true "plug'n'play" turntable complete with cartridge. It's designed for those who want "out of the box" high performance. Based on what we heard in the room, he's succeeded.
“The job of a record player is very simple, and very linear” says Touraj Moghaddam “the most accurate measurement of something going past the stylus and throwing it from side to side over 1000 times every centimetre.”
Among the Dynamic Groove's features:
• Advanced microprocessor generated electronic motor drive for best possible drive
• Fully programmable and copper/stainless steel shielded motor drive PCB - allowing for future upgrades.
• Low voltage 24 pole precision synchronous motor, with its dedicated power supply precisely adjusted for lowest motor noise and vibration
• High-accuracy polished stainless steel, high aspect ratio, main bearing spindle and main bearing housing with tungsten carbide super-precision ball
• High precision CNC machined aluminium alloy drive pulley
• High precision machined aluminium alloy platter with bonded PETG record interface mat and cork/neoprene/nitrile bonded underside resonance control disk
• Noiseless and stiction eliminating nylon thread tonearm bearings each made up of hundreds of 3 microns thick twined Nylon 6.6/6 strands
• Two layer aluminium alloy / polymer sandwich non resonant tonearm beam
• One piece, gold plated flexible PCB tonearm internal wiring
• Stainless steel main balancing counterweight and tracking adjustment weight
I hope you will watch the short video because it will give you insight into how one legendary designer went about the task of creating great sound that won't break the bank, by thinking "outside the box"
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Gorgeous table's!
Cool story bro ;-)
Very interesting commentary. Beautiful tables, thank you for the post.
Thanks!! Very interesting
Years and years ago, when Roksan first started and was based in Clerkenwell Road in London, I went to see Tourag with some ideas to re-style their first record deck. He specified that he wanted the deck to have visual qualities that were reminiscent of the rear end of a Porsche 911! I failed to deliver a design that met with this request, and only later did it occur to me that I hadn't asked him exactly what he meant by this. He clearly never did find an industrial designer to fulfil this very specific brief, which was probably a good thing in the end : )
Clerkenwell EC1..... I also remember popping in there shortly before I became a Xerxes owner...
I was proud to be among
"the cognoscenti"
Is this Part 1? ... Need Part 2 to go into more detail of the TT. This was pretty much just an overview of the tonearm concept.
That is one of the coolest looking turntables I’ve ever seen...beautiful design
This may be the first turntable i will own, can't wait for a review from you guys!
Dynamic Groove? like the 1970's technology. lol.
First :D - Love you videos Michael, cheers.
I’m sorry, but that was just too boring!
Depends on your interests. For those interested in how budget engineering decisions are made by competent designers it is fascinating
Peter Burbank
Then why are you here ?