METAXAS & SINS
Phonographic Perambulator No 1
There’s scant detail about the Phonographic Perambulator No 1 as yet, which debuts this month at the Munich High End show, but, if the past works from the legendary Kostas Metaxas (the ‘Sins’ are his two engineer sons) are anything to go by, you can expect stunning audio reproduction and that’s after you finish admiring its sensuous, fluid design. The Phonographic Perambulator No 1 is machined from a solid block of aircraft aluminium and titanium that eliminates resonances. The round platter is constructed such that the boundary between the lathe-turned aluminium platter base has organic undulations connecting it to an acrylic platter mat. A belt-drive system featuring the most advanced Swiss Maxon motor rotates the platter without adding any external speed variations and issues, while the dedicated tonearm is a pure sapphire tube and jewelled bearings.
