Why a table?

Why a table for a turntable?

Well, in the high-end sector it is extremely important that the base for your highly sensitive turntable also allows as few vibrations as possible. Quite simply because you want to exploit the full potential. A very massive and heavy table with wide sides like our UMAI vibrates less than a rack of the same size with several shelves.

How do I recognize a good base?

You have to listen to how the material sounds. Tap the surface with the back of your finger and listen to the tone. Can you hear the nuances? Is it a rather voluminous tone with some reverberation? Or is it a short, dull sound? Like a short "tok"? This is how it should sound: dull and short. Then the surface has little natural vibration and cannot have a disruptive effect on the turntable. It is very necessary that the music signal can be sampled without disturbing vibration effects.

Music instrument creating vs. turntable making

Playback a record requires different physics than playing an instrument. The musical instrument generates tones with its vibration behavior. The builder of an instrument proves his talent through his feeling for the right vibrations of the hollow body's materials and shape. However, the developer of a recordplayer needs the ability to suppress precisely these vibrations due to his knowledge of the physical properties of materials and due to his general understanding of physics so that the music signal sampling is not distorted by the recordplayer.

> Below you can hear the comparison between the sound of our UMAI and an Ikea shelf.