Thorens Turntable The Reference Originally conceived as a show piece, the REFERENCE project was set a very clear objective: absolute fidelity in the reproduction of clean uncoloured sound. TheTHORENS engineers received full freedom to make use of all the best technology available today, without price limitation. Naturally, they took advantage of the basic research progress made by THORENS over the past years. Previously, this research pointed out the correct solutions for really true reproduction of sound, but could not be realized for economical reasons. The result is unique. Only superlatives can attempt to describe it. Features: THORENS belt drive high torque synchronous motor with clutch pulley electronic motor regulation three speeds: 33V3,45 and 78 rpm pitch control ± 6% illuminated stroboscope at the outer turntable rim heavy basic chassis and heavy floating chassis, both aluminiumcastings. The specially calculated chambers in the floating chassis are filled with grained iron for optimum damping vibration and shock-proof 4-point suspension with gold-plated housings. Each suspension point is individually adjustable bubble level the resonance of the floating chassis can be adjusted (1-5 Hz) for exact matching with the tone arm and cartridge combination specially damped turntable platter of 6.6 kg weight and 30.3 cm diameter new and expensive main bearing construction for the world's best rumble figure. The high precision ground steel shaft rotates in oil bathed hard material bearings record stabilizer, gold-plated 3-tone arm platforms of various sizes 2 electric motor lifts (optional) gold-plated control boards, mounted on the main chassis large dust cover made of glued plexiglass Wow and flutter according to DIN 45507: < 0.02% rumble unweighted, measured with Rumpelmesskoppler according to DIN A, better than 82 dB weight: approx. 90 kgs dimensions: 620x360x510 mm Every REFERENCE turntable was individually manufactured by hand. It was, therefore, possible to comply with customers' special requests regarding, for instance, colour, tone arms and motor lifts. Only a limited quantity of REFERENCE turntables was produced. Last modified: 20-Nov-2001