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La Luce top of the line, the C.S. Centoventi, is low energy storage, non-suspended design, driven by a soft belt and a stand-alone motor set inside a 9kg stainless steel cylinder-house. La Luce C.S. Centoventi features a 120-mm thick platter with an outer diameter of 330-mm. The transparent acrylic platter is machined from one solid block. Platter mass and inertia is increased by embedded stainless steel weights around the platter periphery. The ideal mechanical impedance match of the acrylic material and record vinyl allows stylus-induced resonance to pass smoothly into the mass of the platter and platform. La Luce C.S.Centoventi platter weighs 18 Kg and the platter's massive, one-piece 3 Kg sintered-bronze bearing, is hand matched to the chrome-hardened steel, spindle shaft. A central, asymmetric, thick solid acrylic block holds the bearing house and the arm ground plate. An acrylic cylinder is bolted to the underside of the central block and this forms a broad, T-shaped support. The La Luce rests on three contact points and levelling is accomplished through adjustment polished stainless steel knobs on each side of the support. In addition to the on-off switch, a separate optional switch allows the motor to run on a reduced AC voltage. SpJ Lyla Pick-up Arm The SpJ Lyla pick-up arm has been designed in the manner of a precision instrument, and has been manufactured to extremely fine tolerances out of materials chosen to insure neutral and accurate playback of analogue records. The SpJ Lyla pick-up arm is made of Titanium; it is a uni-pivot " I "- shape design that places the stylus tip in a straight line with both the arm wand longitude and the arm's pivot. The SpJ Lyla carries a minimal lateral mass. The SpJ Lyla Offset-Angle is appropriate for an effective length of 312-mm - according to the classical Bærwald tone arm geometry calculation, which places the Null Radii at 66 and at120.9-mm from the turntable's spindle center. • VTA height setting is made possible even as the stylus tracks the grooves.• Spindle to pivot gauge to set the arm's pivot distance from the turntable spindle is supplied. • Gauge to set the stylus effective length is also supplied. • Template engraved with Bærwald two Null Radii, to check setting of the cartridge offset angle is supplied with the SpJ Lyla. The template can also be used to check setting of the cartridge azimuth. • The SpJ Lyla pick-up arm may be used with cartridges weighing from 3 to more than16 grams, due to add on or interchangeable stainless steel counterbalances. PO Box 272, New York, NY 10024 Phone: (212) 579-4352 |