Opera-Consonance WAX Engine Turntable

Opera-Consonance WAX Engine Turntable

$1,699.00

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Title: Wax Engine

Wax Engine

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The CONSONANCE WAX Engine is a quite remarkable turntable. There are more sensible design features that are beneficial to analogue playback in this turntable than many in those costing several times more.

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Specifications

Voltage:12VDC, 1A adaptor
Tonearm:9” effective length
Speed accuracy:Within 0.01%
Motor power supply:12VDC, 1A
Dimensions:145 x 385 x 345mm (H x W x D)
Weight:6kg

It really is punching above its weight in terms of ‘bang for buck’

The Ear

Main Bearing and Spindle

The WAX Engine has been updated to include the Well Tempered Lab "Zero Clearance" design platter bearing. This is in cooperation with our Well Tempered Lab partners.

Rotational Stability of the spindle

The Well Tempered Lab spindle rotates in a teflon bearing with a triangular hole. The apex of the triangle is orientated towards the motor. This results in vanishingly low friction and a high degree of stability.

Low Bearing Noise

The Well Tempered bearing uses a Teflon thrust bearing. The stainless steel spindle has a precision point and rests into a small hole in the Teflon thrust bearing to achieve very low noise.

The Well Tempered Lab spindle rotates in a teflon bearing with a triangular hole. The apex of the triangle is orientated towards the motor. This results in vanishingly low friction and a high degree of stability.

Motor

The DC motor is a high quality Mabuchi with a patented DC servo supply.

The tonearm is a new aluminium tonearm with cotton fibre internal damping.
Newly designed bearing system with precision machined cups encapsulating 4x tapered shafts in a gimbal fashion to control vibration and resonance in both vertical and horizontal motion whilst allowing secure tracking with even the most demanding of recordings.
The anti-skate mechanism is also quite unique providing a constantly gentle anti-skate across the whole surface of the recording.

All mounted on an aluminium "T" section chassis with isolation feet. A serious attempt to give the recordings their best shot.

Free turntable setup

We carefully set up every turntable and cartridge we sell. So if you're new to turntables or have decades of experience, you know you'll be getting the most enjoyment from your system. You can be safe in the knowledge that you can take your turntable home, plug it straight in and start enjoying good music without any worry of something being setup incorrectly.

For the money, this package is a bargain. The overall end product is one whose performance far outweighs the sum of the separate parts. There’s a synergy which not only retrieves an awful lot of information from the groove in terms of sound quality, but it also does that indefinable thing of engaging with the listener and really ‘making music’.