PBN Audio’s GrooveMaster Turntable [Two-Motor Counter-Balanced Dual Drive System, Three-Layer Laminated Solid Wood Base]

So what happens when you combine an awesome sense of acoustics and audio equipment design with the aesthetics of solid wood? You get the latest creation from PBN Audio, the GrooveMaster Turntable. It has some seriously wicked electronics built on top of a base of triple-laminated solid wood and it is sure to have audiophiles and interior designers lining up to get their hands on one.

After years of intensive R&D, PBN Audio was able to perfect all the attributes of the GrooveMaster turntable. Its two-motor counterbalanced dual drive renders absolute 33.333rpm and it sports a set of four belts for maximum traction. The solid wood base is honed from three laminated layers of select hardwoods and the crown jewel is the SME 312 twelve-inch audiophile tone arm. This is not your ordinary record player.

As if solid wood wasn’t enough, the folks at PBN employed the same technology found in the world’s finest violins for the tone arm support. According to the GrooveMaster’s creator, “The bridge that braces the strings is what gives million-dollar violins their astounding musical depth. I use equally rare woods for the tone arm support”. The specs of this beauty are as follows:

• Two-motor counter-balanced dual drive system
• Precision balanced 17-lb stainless steel flywheel
• Solid stainless steel progressive-traction belt guide
• Belt guide accommodates four belts for superior performance
• Platter rotates at an absolute 33.333rpm
• Computer-controlled synchronized drive station to eliminate any variability and assure absolute frequency stability
• Wood base is honed from three laminated layers of select planks of kiln-dried maple, walnut, rosewood or other fine hardwoods
• Stainless steel accents and precise three-point risers in protective coasters
  Platter is precisely honed from a solid block of high-grade iridescent or translucent acrylic
• Turntable is supplied with the legendary SME 312 12-in Precision Transcription Arm fitted with a subsonic lateral-mode fluid damper that can be instantly adjusted
• Precision-machined hardwood arm support can be likened to an exquisite violin bridge. The near perfect tonal quality is the direct result of the superior material that is used.
• Cartridge is extra and at customer’s request

The GrooveMaster comes in your choice of maple, rosewood, mahogany, and walnut and retails for $10,000. Yeah, that’s four zeros there. For more information on the GrooveMaster Turntable and other PBN Audio products you can head over to www.pbnaudio.com.