Michell Announces Gyro And Revolv Turntables – First Look
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British Hi-Fi company Michell has launched two new belt-driven turntables; the Michell Gyro and Michell Revolv. The new Gyro represents their latest evolution of a true HiFi icon, while the Revolv, is positioned for a wider audience at a lower cost yet still maintaining Michell’s design principles and maintaining the company’s trademark attention to detail.
Gyro Turntable
First released in 1982, this latest model is still recognisable as a Gyro and features several stylistic refinements. The belt-driven Delrin platter has lost its grooves, while the base has transitioned from acrylic to a high-mass aluminium platform enhancing rigidity.
The design upgrades include; a precision-machined, solid 19mm aerospace-grade aluminium chassis that is said to reduce colouration and improve imaging and energy control, according to Michell, its design used various analysis tools to include; finite element analysis and AI-assisted modelling, to optimise vibration control, mass distribution, and damping. The three-point suspension has been replaced by a new self-centering mechanism known as Equilibri, lowering the system’s resonant frequency from 4.5Hz to 3.5Hz, plus six Sorbothane contact nodes per foot have been added, all further reducing vibration. The inverted bearing now incorporates a double helix pump improving fluid flow further reducing vibration, while the motor assembly features a new shielded clamshell housing design, machined from a single billet of aluminium and provides electronic speed control for 33.3 and 45 RPM, said to result in a quieter and smoother motor performance.
The Gyro comes with unicover and record clamp but no arm or cartridge.
Revolv turntable
The new and more compact Revolv turntable slots in between the TecnoDec and Gyro models and brings Michell’s engineering and design excellence to a wider audience.
The Revolv employs a rigid, high-mass design using a 19mm aerospace-grade aluminium chassis machined from a single billet. Six Sorbothane contact nodes within each foot again isolate the deck from external disturbances. Like the Gyro, the Revolv incorporates Michell’s inverted bearing design, now using a mono-helix oil channel to provided lubrication and smooth, low-friction rotation. The Delrin platter, with the familiar solid brass weights, provides speed stability and damping characteristics to ensure a neutral sonic character and minimal wow and flutter.
Belt drive is provided by a new, isolated free-standing motor system with a regulated, grounded, and electromagnetically shielded power supply. Its clamshell housing is the same as that used by the Gyro and provides electronic speed control for 33.3 and 45 RPM.
Like the Gyro the Revolv does not come with an arm or cartridge nor does it arrive with a record clamp or unicover.
MSRP (Revolv/Gyro):
- UK: £3,995/£5,995
- US: $5,400/$8,050 (approx.)
For more information visit the Michell web site.
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