Agnew Analog Type 612P Reference Disk Record Reproducer

A legacy, designed to outlive its creators. Proudly handcrafted to pass on to the next generations along with a rich cultural heritage of sound, forever captured in modulated record grooves. Preserving a long tradition of precision engineering and fine craftsmanship, Agnew Analog proudly presents the ultimate reference turntable. 

Based on the Agnew Analog Type 612 Disk Mastering Lathe, the Type 612P is intended as a reference reproducer, a playback turntable for the discerning audiophile. Where cost, size and weight is no object, but the ultimate in sound quality is. 

The Type 612P consists of the exact same machine bed with the Agnew Analog Hydrodynamic Oil-Bath Bearing Unit and hand-scraped ways machined directly on it, as the original Type 612 Disk Mastering Lathe. In fact, the Disk Mastering Lathe can be converted to a Reference Disk Record Reproducer and vice versa. It uses the same massive floor-standing direct-drive motor to drive the platter as the lathe does. The platter is critically damped and does not need a rubber mat. Instead, it features the opposite profile as a disk record, machined directly onto the top surface of the platter. The recorded area of the disk record is fully and rigidly supported along its entire surface. 

The center spindle is removable, featuring a cone for indexing, just like a precision machine tool. Spindles of different sizes are offered, to precisely cover the entire spectrum of record hole sizes. But all records are eccentric from the factory, some more so than others. A record centering microscope is provided for where the ultimate accuracy of reproduction is called for. The center spindle is removed entirely, the record is optically centered on the platter and a clamp is used to keep it in place. This is the exact same procedure used for centering stampers in the vinyl record manufacturing process. 

Multiple tonearms can be mounted, by adding additional tonearm mounting turrets around the platter, on the wooden bench top. The main tonearm turret is mounted on the lathe bed and can slide to the required distance from the platter to accommodate any tonearm of any common length. It is then locked into position using the same locking system found in precision machine tool tailstocks.

The Type 612P is mounted on vee blocks, on top of a handcrafted wooden cabinet with adjustable machine feet. 

The microscope slides across the surface of the record on a precision monorail assembly, permitting the visual inspection of record grooves for quality control, archival purposes and manual groove repair and deticking. The microscope is of the exact same type used as a groove inspection microscope on the Type 612 Disk Mastering Lathe. 

This reproducer represents the ultimate commitment to high end audio. It is the highest end and the highest fi. Designed for several decades of trouble-free operation at the highest level of performance attainable, this is the turntable you will be proud to pass on to your children and they, in turn, will be proud to pass on to their own.