Acoustic Signature Ascona with 12" TA9000 Arm

Selling the ‘ultimate’ high mass turntable - Acoustic Signature Ascona MK2 turntable with Silver Sandwich platter optional extra SME arm mount and magnetic feet. 

Complete with top of the range TA9000 12" Tone Arm

This is completely pimped out!!!

Recommended Retail Price: 
Ascona turntable: $34.000 
Ascona SME arm board: $1,995

Ascona Sandwich Platter (same as invictus): $6,997 

Also added magnetic feet and silencers are in brass!!!

Bringing the retail value of the turntable alone to more than. $42,992 +++

Then there's the TA9000 top of the range tone arm with pure silver wiring. This are is retailing at $25,000!!!!

So the complete turntable is for sale with a retail value of $67,992

This is the last turntable you'll ever own! Quite simply the best we've ever had. Please contact us for more details - can work anywhere in the world and we'll ship anywhere.

The condition is next to perfect 9/10 rarely used.

From The Absolute Sounds review:

'All in all, the Ascona is among the highest-resolution source components I’ve yet heard, consistently digging out more details (including those marvelous locational cues) than most other ’tables and ’arms. That extraordinary resolution combined with the Ascona’s admirably neutral balance make for one of the most transparent-tosources analog front ends on the market.

The fact that it is beautifully engineered, impeccably well made, and priced some $50,000 less than the superb ’tables it so impressively competes with only makes it that much more of a good deal (and that much more recommendable).'

The turntable alone weighs 78kg (171lbs) and the matching aluminium stand adds over 100kg (250lbs).

The design features:

- the chassis is milled out from a 70mm thick block of aluminium 
- 50mm solid turntable platter made of aluminum with 54 Silencer inserts 
- European made Synchronous motor with State of the Art digital motor control (can work on 90-260V AC input voltage) 
- 3 motor flywheel motor system 
- lifetime maintenance free Tidorfolon bearing (covered with a 10 year product warranty)

Equipped with SME arm base.

Comes an original box, PSU, detachable IEC AC power cord, all manuals, Comes with FULL 10 year warranty from purchase.

All enquires welcome and will be answered in full.

Euro Pricing below & Technical information.

Silver or black anodized                        28.360,00
Extra´s

Sandwich Platter same as INVICTUS    6.300,00
Additional Armboard Cut out/drilling
Rega, SME, KUZMA or other                     315,00

Tech Data / Specs
H 22,0 cm B 48,0 cm T 47,0 cm Weight: 78 kg
-Linear Power supply PS-1 included
-Up to 3 Tonearms 9 to 12 Inch

TONE ARM TA-9000

Why an extreme product like the TA-9000. The objective was to rethink everything for which an optimal solution did not yet exist on the market. An innovative tonearm tube and highly precise, minimal preloaded ball bearings for the vertical and horizontal axes guarantee that the TA-9000 follows the pickup demands, guiding it perfectly and ensures reading every groove on a vinyl record precisely. The two tubes are externally conical but internally round. The tubes are connected with hundreds of elements. The tubes are bound together tightly by more than 700 pads. These are designed to be similar to tree branches aw and are arranged inside the tube in a spiral.

All this is made in one single piece of aluminum – like never before. To sum it up, this is an unprecedented arm tube. To date, it accomplishes the until now not accomplishable requirements for a light-weight, extremely stiff but simultaneously damping tube. Perfect for every pickup. Perfect for our top of the line tone arm TA-9000. A tone arm should guide the needle flawlessly and not create any friction – neither horizontally nor vertically. At best, it should not present any bearing clearance or friction. 

This has not worked mutually until now. The ball bearing for horizontal and vertical movement sourced from the US specialist Timken. Timken, in fact, manufactures the ultra-precise bearings for astronautics. We personally select ours. Only the best of what is delivered make it into the TA-9000. These bearings are then meticulously adjusted and incorporated always from the same experienced specialist. We provide both bearings with a little bit of prestress that eliminates clearance and nevertheless maintains extremely low friction. The internal cabling consists of a continuous pure silver cable that leads from the pickup pins to the 5 pin connecter positioned in the arm shaft. The counter weight is manufactured in brass. The TA-9000 is available in 12 inch length.

CONSTRUCTION DETAILSAluminumBEARINGTIDORFOLON Bearing
with Wolfram-Carbid-ballMOTOR DRIVE3 motor flywheelPLATTER50mm solid turntable platter made of aluminumSPEED CHANGEwith motor electronic

33 1/3 RPM
45 RPM

DIMENSIONSwidth 573mm
depth 489mm
high 214mmTOTAL WEIGHT176 lbsColor

• silver