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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