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[Martin Dew]

Vertere Acoustics has announced that its new-generation digital Tempo motor drive has now started shipping. The drive is expected to sell with the company’s SG-1 and RG-1 turntables with SG-1 tonearms. Vertere emphasizes that the energy of music from vinyl records literally comes from the motor because it “drives the record past the stylus.” This can affect detail, dynamics, timbre and timing, according to founder, Touraj Moghaddam.
The Tempo drive (MSRP $3,995) controls the record player motor which the company claims leads to a “smoother drive with lower noise and lower distortion.” Its internal circuit is microprocessor-based and provides a pure sine wave in the digital domain, converted to analogue via an onboard DAC. Two waveforms are derived, a cosine and a sine, amplified using two bridged amplifiers to power the motor. The net result – when combined with the RG-1 or SG-1 turntables – promises to deliver a vinyl listening...

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