AVID Ingenium Plug&Play Turntable with Cartridge

Description

INGENIUM PLUG&PLAY

A heavy solid aluminum platter is also available as an optional
upgrade, bringing much improved sound quality and speed stability.

Since its introduction in 2013, the Ingenium has been
winning awards globally and become the benchmark for entry level audiophile players. With
the increased popularity of vinyl, especially with novice customers and younger
enthusiasts, in 2018 we raised the bar yet again of this popular design.

Ingenium Plug&Play builds on its predecessor, retaining
many features, making some aesthetic improvements and a more straightforward
installation. Complete with quality fitted tonearm and cartridge, it is ready
to use within ten minutes…. really Plug&Play

“Product of the Year in the Turntable
category”
– Jeff Dorgay

ENGINEERED QUALITY

Sharing the same design philosophy and features from our
more expensive designs, Ingenium Plug&Play has true audiophile credentials
and an engineered quality.

Our unique sapphire bearing and clamping system, which
efficiently channels unwanted vibrations away from the record to the
chassis, reduces the background noise of the record itself, so there is
clarity to the music, the performance not vailed but vivid and transparent.

“For a plug and play turntable this was a stonker
of a machine”
– Janine Elliot

REASSURINGLY AVID

Isolating the turntable is critical to maintain low
coloration and we have employed the same optimized elastomer used in our Diva
range, giving excellent mechanical isolation of the playing surface, resulting
in better information retrieval and resolution.

Ingenium Plug&Play opens the door to quality audiophile
reproduction, without the feeling its “just another record
player”.  It’s reassuringly an AVID record player at an
affordable price.

“Fantastic combination of rhythmic precision and
sheer musical energy”
-Ed Selley

KEY FEATURES

• Sapphire
  Jewell Bearing

• Vibration
  Transfer Clamp

• Solid
  Aluminum Chassis

• Sorbothane
  Isolation Feet

• Optional
  Aluminum Platter Upgrade Available

 

Clamp

Fundamental in the design of all our turntables, our unique
screw-down clamp grounds the record to the bearing, allowing unwanted vibration
to pass away to the main chassis. This lowers the noise floor of the record
itself, allowing the cartridge to more faithfully trace the groove, giving a
more transparent and realistic sound whilst reducing record wear and damage.

Precision machined from solid aluminum and stainless steel,
our clamp also automatically flattens all but the most warped records to the
platter mat, allowing the cartridge to trace the groove more faithfully and
prevents air pockets under the record reducing sound quality.

Platter

Precision machined high density fiberboard (HDF) offers a
stable self-damping material to support the record. The cork-based
compound mat effectively keeps vibration within the record rather than passing
into the platter, so that it is transmitted away through the bearing.

A heavy solid aluminum platter is also available as an
upgrade, bringing much improved sound quality and speed stability.

Bearing

Our unique inverted true single point bearing is the heart
of all our turntable designs.

A specially shaped sapphire rotates on a captive tungsten
carbide ball with no friction, noise or wear. Different to other designs,
AVID’s bearing has no lateral movement at the contact point, so the platter
does not wobble or suffer from rumble noise. The main spindle is tapered
preventing standing waves and the single self-lubricating sleeve is maintenance
free for life.

Chassis

Machined from solid aluminum, the heavy two and a half by
two-inch cruciform shape gives great rigidity between the tonearm and platter.
Any movement here and potentially the musical information stored on your
records will never be heard. It is also where the bad vibration evacuated from
the record through the press fit spindle is harmlessly dissipated.

Feet

The main chassis is supported and isolated from external
vibration and feedback from your loudspeakers with our bespoke Sobothane
compound rubber. Sorbothane offers exceptional isolation from the harmful
effects that would limit your sound reproduction quality.

Motor

Giving dynamic drive and stability to your music, the
Ingenium Plug&Play employs a high-powered synchronous motor with the
correct power to platter mass ratio, so that the motor is in full control of
the platter. The impact on what you hear is instant and likewise the start-up
time of the platter, with fast dynamics and authority of sound that a powerful
drive system offers.

SPECIFICATIONS

DRIVE:
BELT DRIVE
SPEEDS:
33.3 & 45.0 RPM
PLATTER MASS:
2.5KG
BEARING:
INVERTED STAINLESS STEEL
THRUST POINT:
TUNGSTEN CARBIDE/SAPPHIRE
SUSPENSION:
ELASTOMER
TONEARM:
AVID TA-1
CARTRIDGE:
AVID-CA1
MOTOR:
12mNm AC synchronous
VOLTAGE INPUT:
100-240VAC 50/60Hz 4 Watts Max.
DIMENSIONS:
370 x 305 x 130mm (WxDxH overall)
NET WEIGHT:
5.9KG (13LB)