THE PHASE 8000 IS AS CLOSE TO PERFECT AS YOU CAN GET.
SIGNAL/NOISE: -78dB.
WOW & FLUTTER: 0.013%.
TRACKING ERROR: 0.
SKATING FORCE: 0.
No other turntable can match the Phase 8000, because no other turntable has such advanced motors. You can't buy a quieter turntable.
Or one with as low wow & flutter.
Or one that tracks better.
The Phase 8000's tangential tracking tonearm keeps the stylus in perfect 90° tangent with the grooves. It's the same way the master disc was cut, so the motion of your stylus is identical to the cutterhead stylus.
There's absolutely no tracking distortion. No crosstalk. No skating force that can actually re-cut your grooves.
NEW LINEAR MOTOR ELIMINATES MECHANICAL LINKAGE
Other manufacturers have tried to move tangential tonearms with worm gears. Belts. Rollers. All with the same sad result: Mechanical connections pass on the noise and vibration of the motor.
The Phase 8000 solves this problem with an ingenious Linear Motor. The tonearm base is a permanently magnetized armature that glides along guide bars above electro-magnetic coils.
The arm moves by direct induction--not mechanical connection. So there's virtually no noise.
Inside the tonearm, an opto-electronic detector cell senses the slightest tracking error, and instantly sends correcting signals to keep the arm on track.
NEW QUARTZ-PLL DIRECT DRIVE
Our new slotless, coreless, Stable Hanging Rotor DC motor virtually eliminates "platter wobble” Quick start/stop. Speed deviation is lower than 0.002%.
If you want to hear all these technical advantages translated into musical improvements, contact your Phase Linear audio dealer.
Phase Linear Corporation, 20121 48th Ave. W. Lynwood, WA 98036
(Source: Audio magazine, Oct. 1979 )
Also see:
Phase Linear Model 8000 Series Two Turntable (Equip. Profile, Nov. 1980)
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