You can see right through Audio-Technica’s new transparent turntable

You’ll privation to marque definite to regularly particulate underneath Audio-Technica’s caller transparent turntable, too. | Image: Audio-Technica

Audio-Technica’s engineers are seemingly moving overtime to elevate the plan of the grounds player. Following the uncover of its floating, glowing Hotaru turntable past month, the institution has announced its caller AT-LPA2 featuring a chassis and platter made from transparent acrylic. With electronics similar its powerfulness proviso and playback controls packed into a abstracted portion that tin beryllium kept retired of sight, the turntable is simply a reminder that transparent tech tin inactive look modern and sleek.

The AT-LPA2 features a akin plan to the Audio-Technica AT-LP2022 turntable that was released successful January 2023 to assistance commemorate the company’s 60th anniversary. The erstwhile mentation was constricted to conscionable 3,000 units made disposable worldwide and sold for $1,200. The caller AT-LPA2 is disposable starting today, and portion its rollout won’t beryllium arsenic limited, it present costs $2,000.

The basal of the turntable is made from a 30mm heavy slab of high-density transparent acrylic, portion the spinning platter atop is made from the aforesaid worldly that’s 20mm thick. It not lone makes for a striking design, but acrylic is besides an effectual worldly for dampening vibrations which improves playback show and helps support the turntable operating quietly.

Direct thrust turntables, successful which the spinning platter is portion of the electrical motor, connection superior show implicit those that usage a abstracted centrifugal connected with a belt. But successful this case, a loop thrust really serves to heighten the aesthetics of the AT-LPA2. To guarantee close playback, Audio-Technica includes an optical sensor that monitors the platter’s rotation truthful it maintains a changeless velocity of either 33 1/3 oregon 45rpm.

The institution redesigned the code limb included with the constricted variation model, but it’s inactive made from c fibre to assistance trim its value and includes interchangeable counterweights that tin beryllium added and removed to assistance support the limb balanced with antithetic cartridges.

To assistance support the turntable’s chassis arsenic transparent arsenic possible, playback controls and different buttons are included connected a abstracted portion that besides houses the powerfulness supply. That attack not lone lets you presumption the power portion retired of show since it’s not transparent and doesn’t lucifer the AT-LPA2’s aesthetic, Audio-Technica says it besides isolates the turntable’s audio components from powerfulness proviso sound “resulting successful a cleaner, much close sound.”