Michell TecnoDec for sale

About this product

We are offering for sale a Michell TecnoDec previously owned turntable. The product was purchased from our showroom on 25th June 2021 and installed by our team. The reason for the sale is due to our customer upgrading to the new Michell Revolv turntable. The product belongs to the original owner and includes a OEM 303 tonearm. We are advertising the TecnoDec on behalf of our customer, as a result, there is no warranty supplied with the product. The product is in full working order.

The Michell TecnoDec Turntable is Michell’s entry-level model. It uses the same low-noise DC motor and the impedance-matched platter from the highly respected GyroDec, along with an advanced bearing on an elegant solid-plinth design with damped feet. The Michell TecnoDec turntable requires no user-setup or maintenance.

The task of a turntable seems to be simple. At audio frequencies, the tonearm should be kept locked above the groove, without any extraneous motion relative to the cartridge. And the groove should be dragged at a constant angular speed underneath the stylus. This means that over the whole frequency band of 10Hz up to 20kHz and beyond, the whole loop made by record, platter, bearing, (sub)chassis, arm board, tonearm, and cartridge body should behave in an utterly rigid and non-resonant fashion. Any flexing of the same dimensions as the microscopic undulations in the groove detracts from sonic fidelity.

At lower-than-audio frequencies, the tonearm should be made able to freely follow the groove’s warps and eccentricities, so as not to damage LP or cartridge, and this without inducing any spurious signals into the cartridge’s generator. Only when these demands are fulfilled can the stylus trace the actual information embedded in the record’s groove walls.

LP records are warped. They vibrate along with the music as the stylus traces the groove and tend to move and bend under the pressure of the arm and cartridge when they are insufficiently supported. Michell turntables clamp the record to a hard platter. This flattens out warps, and it also couples the LP tightly to the platter so that internal resonances can be drained away from the stylus, as if the LP effectively is of a much higher thickness and rigidity.

Michell make the platter from a proprietary self-damping compound of carbon/vinyl-loaded acrylic. This material closely approaches the mechanical and acoustical properties of the vinyl record itself, enhancing the coupling between both. Indeed, at boundaries of materials with like acoustic impedances, transmission of vibrational energy occurs. Whereas at boundaries of dissimilar materials, be they LP versus felt, metal, glass, or just air, only part of the energy is transmitted, the remainder being reflected back into the album, towards the stylus.

Above measures not only result in a neutral and precise sound, but also in a very low susceptibility to record blemishes, ticks and pops. This is one of the reasons why a Michell Engineering turntable not only excels in the replay of good LP’s, but also pulls the same trick with less than pristine records.

Features

– Solid-plinth turntable with standalone motor
– Acrylic/vinyl platter, impedance-matched to the record
– Oil-pumping inverted bearing
– High-quality standalone DC motor
– Arm board for Rega-compatible arms
– Optional record clamp
– Optional HR power supply
– Optional dust cover
– Finished in black acrylic with aluminium metal parts

Specifications

• Width – 49cm
• Depth – 31cm
• Height – 8.5cm