Musical Fidelity M8x TT High-End Turntable

Description

M8x TT

Musical Fidelity founder Mr Antony Michaelson‘s idea of music was big scale. Warm and mighty with all details in full colour. His amplifier creations are a rare expression of this sound character.

In 2002 Antony asked Mr. Lichtenegger to help with a design with all these attributes. Also, the design was very important and should match the mechanically stunning amplifiers. The Musical Fidelity M1 was born and a great success.

The base idea was to combine the inert mass of metal alloys with zero resonating acrylic. The motor was effectively decoupled from the tonearm and platter with the dual chassis construction. This new M8x TT is following the same design philosophies with even more expressive technical features.

The 10-inch tonearm is a complete new ultra low resonance Musical Fidelity design with transparent acrylic bearing ring and conical aluminium tonearm tube.

This tonearm is fully VTA and azimuth adjustable, and comes with two counterweights to use it with cartridges from 6 to 20g. The counterweights are TPE damped to prevent resonances.

On the back of the M8x TT you can find standard phono RCA outputs, as well as balanced XLR sockets which gives you ultimate flexibility for your phono preamplifier choice.

Motor Drive

The motor is sitting in on a special foam in the lower level acrylic plinth, to decouple it from the platter and the tonearm. The electronic speed control allows you to switch between 33 / 45 RPM. A silicon belt connects the motor and the two floor TPE damped platter, which is made of aluminium with additional inserts to improve the flywheel effect.

Feet

Four heavyweight TPE damped aluminium feet with magnetic support connect the two acrylic plinths with teflon spacers in between. You can adjust them in height by turning the riffled middle part of the feet to level the turntable.

Features

• Mass-loaded belt drive design with electronic speed change (33 / 45 rpm).
• Heavyweight aluminium sandwich platter.
• Heavy multi-alloy record puck included.
• Height adjustable magnetic feet.
• New 10-inch Musical Fidelity tonearm.
• Azimuth and VTA fully adjustable.
• Non-resonant acrylic plinth with effective decoupling.
• RCA and balanced XLR outputs.
• Heavy aluminium record puck included.
• Leather mat included.
• Handmade in Europe.

Specifications

• Speed: 33 / 45 (electronic speed change).
• Drive Principle: Belt drive, with electronic speed control.
• Platter: Sandwich aluminium platter with aluminium inserts (10 kg), both floors with TPE damping.
• Platter Bearing: Inverted bearing with ceramic ball tip.
• Tonearm: 10-inch Musical Fidelity tonearm.
• Effective Tonearm Mass / Length: 17 g / 254 mm
• Overhang: 16 mm
• Wow & Flutter: 33 rpm: ±0.05 % / 45 rpm ±0.04 %
• Speed Drift: 33 rpm ±0.11 % / 45 rpm ±0.10 %
• Signal-to-Noise: -78 dB
• Dimensions: 533 x 245 x 413 mm
• Weight: 31.5 kg

Included

• M8x TT Turntable, Platter, Tonearm, Motor Drive.
• Leather platter mat.
• Aluminium record puck.
• Semi-balanced RCA phono interconnect cable, with gold-plated connectors.

Full Musical Fidelity Range Available

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More Information

• M8X TT, by Musical Fidelity

Additional information

Brand

Musical Fidelity

Musical Fidelity have been designing and manufacturing hi-fi electronics for over thirty years, and are proud to have become one of the best-known brands in the audio industry.

The company are driven by a passion for wonderful music and the challenge of world-class engineering. Musical Fidelity approach each new design by looking for the absolute best solution to any given challenge, and embrace new technologies in their designs as well as developing more traditional methods for even greater performance.