The Nottingham Spacedeck turntable is an exceptionally harmonious and musical component. Its heavy turntable made of cast metal is additionally dampened by rubber straps. A standard neoprene plate support effectively decouples the LP. The smooth-running drive motor is decoupled next to the drive, but visually forms a unit with the chassis. The tonearm base is acoustically optimized and offers space for tonearms from 9 inches to 12 inches.

The Nottingham Ace Space arm is a unipivot design that uses side stabilizer bars and tiny ball bearing chases to maintain azimuth. Nottingham has also developed a proprietary damping material the viscosity of which is such that it does not flow and does not require “settling time”. This material is applied to the center pivot and the stabilizer bars. Nottingham uses carbon fibre tubes with the fibres oriented the length of the tone arm not wrapped around it (like a bandage). This greatly increases the strength, resonance control and rigidity of the arm. Nottingham also uses an unusual headshell design. The headshell has an orientation that is in direct line with the tone arm and not offset in any way. The headshell also has no finger lift. These two features insure that the arm is properly balanced from side to side and that no uncontrolled resonances are running around the headshell.

This arm uses the same long grain carbon fibre tube but also uses a second tube as a liner. This helps dramatically with both rigidity and resonance control. The ACE Space also uses a threaded allen screw to make the selection and adjustment of VTA a simple step.

In excellent condition, and comes packaged with a Nagaoka MP 200 MM cartridge.

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The perfect way to link any computer-based source with USB digital outputs to an external DAC with only SPDIF inputs. The Wavelength converter also reduces jitter.

"Since the clocks in all transports are changing, the SPDIF output also has to change and this is used to control the flow of audio data between a transport and dac. With the WaveLink the clock is fixed and therefore the SPDIF is fixed and this makes the receiver section of any SPDIF connected device to work really well because the internal PLL (Phase Lock Loop) that derives the Audio DATA stream connects at one frequency, locks on and stays there. This means that the WaveLink has significantly better jitter capabilities than most transports."

WaveLink HS 24/192 USB SPDIF specifications:
• USB High Speed 24/192 to SPDIF Adapter.
• Output Impedance BNC 75 ohms verified.
• Transformer Isolated at the SPDIF from the computer.
• Power up and power down follows the state of the computer.
• 4" wide by 4.5" deep, by 2.5" high, 3 Pounds.
• Six LEDS indicating sample rate are supplied on the back panel.

Au24 SX audio cables represent the biggest transformation in cable performance ever achieved by Audience. ALL of the SX cables are notably more transparent, dynamic, more resolved and have greater weight and authority, immediately noticeable. Everyone who has tried them thus far has been very impressed with the advancements Audience have achieved through the use of purer OCC copper (now six nines) and higher quality XLPE dielectric insulation as well as tweaking of geometry as compared to the historic lines of Au24 cables.

Current model in mint condition! With original box.

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Reimyo DAP-999EX, a high-purity digital-to-analog converter unparalleled and unprecedented performance in its class bring you exquisite sound you have never ever experienced before. Employs Japan Victor’s K2 technology 24bit DAC IC, rigid constructed all aluminum body, custom design parts including transformers and condensers, special made super purity and ultra high-speed signal transmission internal wiring, original design tuning feet addition to our oriented and our rigorous study over the digital behave let you excite and invite you to a new level in music listening!

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By using constrained-layer-damped shelves in a beautifully machined aluminum rack, with both the shelves themselves and the struts on which the shelves sit separated from one another by roller bearings, Symposium's Isis did not just turn resonant energy more efficiently into heat; it also seemed to more effectively drain that energy away without feeding it (or select parts of it) back into the items sitting n the shelves.

The patented Isis Rack doesn't merely excel at meeting the goals for which all high quality equipment racks should strive - acoustic neutrality, simplicity of design, excellent energy drainage and dissipation, isolation from floor borne vibration, and an optimal mechanical ground path - the Isis Rack, goes beyond these goals with innovations that exist in no other racks - at any price.

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The Opera Seconda is a floor-standing three-way column speaker that is reflex loaded. There are two 5" long-throw SEAS woofers with polypropylene cones and a 5” SEAS midrange driver. The cones are made from double-treated paper. The tweeter, by Scanspeak, is the same we use on the more expensive Seconda and Quinta 2011 models. Impedance for the Grand Mezza is a nominal 4 ohms.The Opera Grand Mezza 2012 is a comprehensive and versatile speaker system suitable for the most demanding musical programs, and it can be used in sophisticated home theater systems as well.

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The Pandora is a fully-balanced vacuum tube based digital-to-analogue converter with USB, S/PIDIF, AES/EBU and Toslink inputs.

High quality construction techniques include an all-aluminium chassis, stainless steel faraday cage to isolate digital sections, multiple power transformers in a stainless steel enclosure, and multiple regulation stages. These components raise the bar for all digital products.

Pandora Signature offer true native DSD 1x and 2x functionality over USB. The entire DSP processing section is replaced (pictured above, click to enlarge). The new section includes an advanced Xilinx gate-array which allows the DSP to be completely bypassed for pure DSD 1x and 2x operation. No alteration of DSD data occurs. Many DACs in the market that claim to play DSD actually convert the data to PCM and thereby completely lose the purpose of DSD operation.

In near mint condition, with remote control.

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Combining a Class A analog input stage with a high-efficiency Class D output stage, DPA-1M operates equally well on the floor, on an amp stand, or in a very tight space. A price-to-performance bellwether, this Peter Madnick-designed and U.S.A.-made component manages to give you the best of all worlds without the traditional shortcomings of Class D designs and with all the fun, grip, and involvement you expect from high-end instruments.

"Both the stereo and the mono versions of this amplifier sounded like indefatigable powerhouses, with plenty of dynamic headroom. I never heard the amplifier soften the bass, harden textures, or congeal the soundstage, no matter what the playback level or how demanding the music."
– Robert Harley, The Absolute Sound

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The Clearaudio Smart Phono Phono Stage's miniature size means that signal path lengths are kept extremely short which leads to a pure and noise-free musical reproduction, much greater than that of typical products in this price range.

The external power supply keeps the delicate phono signal away from mains power, minimising hum and noise. High quality gold plated input and output RCA terminals on the Clearaudio Smart Phono give a superb contact which will not degrade over time.

Switching is provided for both MM (moving magnet) and MC (moving coil) cartridges, making the Clearaudio Smart Phono compatible with virtually all phono cartridges.

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Top model speaker cable from Antipodes Audio, terminated with gold spades on both send. This is an almost cost-no-object design using silver conductors infused with gold and platinum to extract the best performance from any speaker cable.

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