A belt-drive turntable with a solid, plastic-free plinth, an 8 mm glass platter and a one-piece aluminium arm fitted with an Ortofon OM10. It is the base model of the range, with a direct phono output for an existing phono input or stage.
T1 EVO: how it is built
The T1 EVO starts from a simple idea: remove from the turntable anything that can resonate. The wooden plinth is CNC-milled from a solid block, with no cavities where vibration might build up and no plastic components. The platter follows the same logic: a slab of blasted glass 8 mm thick, heavy and inert, chosen over plastic and thin steel, and used with the felt mat provided. The feet decouple the plinth from the furniture.
The motor passes its drive through a belt to a redesigned sub-platter, carried on a bearing machined to a 0.001 mm tolerance: a hardened stainless steel shaft inside a brass sleeve. Electronic motor control holds the rotation steady and lets you move from 33 to 45 rpm without shifting the belt. The outcome is an even, resonance-resistant rotating base on which arm and cartridge can do their work properly.
The 8.6-inch arm is a single piece of aluminium, headshell included: no screwed or glued joints are there to vibrate, and low-friction bearings make its movement precise. The moving-magnet Ortofon OM10 has an elliptically cut diamond tip. The signal leaves through the Connect it E lead, semi-balanced, shielded and low in capacitance, developed specifically for turntables. A dust cover is included and assembly is done by hand in the Czech Republic.
Specifications
- Speeds: 33 and 45 rpm, switched electronically
- Drive: belt, motor run by a precision generator
- Speed deviation: 0.7 % at 33 rpm, 0.6 % at 45 rpm
- Wow and flutter: 0.25 % at 33 rpm, 0.23 % at 45 rpm
- Platter: 8 mm blasted glass, felt mat supplied
- Bearing: stainless steel and brass
- Signal-to-noise ratio: 65 dB
- Tonearm: 8.6-inch, aluminium, integrated headshell
- Effective length of the arm: 218.5 mm
- Overhang: 22 mm
- Effective mass of the arm: 8 g
- Counterweight: suits cartridges of 5 to 10 g
- Cartridge: Ortofon OM10, tracking weight set to 17.5 mN (range 0-50 mN)
- Output: phono on RCA, semi-balanced Connect it E lead
- Supplied with: dust cover and felt mat
- Dimensions: 415 x 100 x 335 mm (width, height, depth)
- Weight: 3.8 kg
- Finishes: black, white, walnut
