The LIU turntable is a beautiful design with styling cues from the well-known Chinese Imperial Palace - Forbidden City in Beijing. The quality is appearant at every stage, the concept is designed to last forever, everywhere you look is a new feature. The sound quality of the LIU will make your vinyl collection very happy.
Features of the LIU Turntable:
Forbidden City LIU is a more cost effective version of Opera's award winning top-of-the-line Droplet LP5.0 turntable to fit a medium budget. Come with Opera's own high end oil damping tone arm T988 (retail value $700).
The LIU turntable inherited the precision stainless steel bearing, AC motor drive system and concept of sandwich structure sub chassis from the flagship Droplet LP5.0 turntable, with a one-piece machined black acrylic platter and well designed sub chassis which features the use of graphite in a cost effective way, to give real value for the price.
LIU skillfully achieves the goal of complete vibration absorbtion through a double layer graphite spindle holder working as a sandwich hard damping system. The melding thick aluminum plate ‘floats' by graphite rings which gives this turntable exceptional stability dissipating unwanted vibrations. This turntable comes with a German AC motor in its own separate chassis independent from plinth, and the whole system sits on 3 stainless steel adjustable balancing feet to ensure the deck is precisely level.
Stainless steel bearing is outsource machined by a company who solely caters the Chinese Aerospace industry, which just recently sent astronants walk in the space, to achieve watch grade precision ( ± 0.01mm ) and finish.
It's a floatation bearing design that suspends the platter on a highly rigid industrial ceramic ball bearing and a highly rigid industrial ceramic cushion to reduce friction.
Turntable specifications:
- Wow and Flutter: Less than 0.2
- Rumble: Greater than 80dB down
- Speed accuracy: Within 0.01%
- Motor AC power connection: 100V~120V 60Hz AC
Measurement: 19" W x 17" D x 8" H (with arm installed)
