Introducing The Tri-Torque Stablizer by Tien Audio
The world’s first three-stage torque adjustable turntable
Digging more information from the vinyl tracks has always been the most important goal of our company. Last year we launched the TT3 turntable which caused a tremendous change response from the industry. This year we launched the Tri-Torque Stabilizer (TT3 can be directly upgraded)!
The use of torque in the recording replay technology have not been carefully studied by the turntable designers, because there is a certain degree of difficulty to adjust small motor torque; and overweight platters that use low torque motor, creates large inertia which cannot reflect the subtle changes in the track reading. Our TT3 turntable is a low inertia turntable, coupled with the design of three motors in order to control torque, and thus achieve the corresponding master of different engraving.
Three-stage torque design principles
There are simply three types of Master production of a record, the wax master, the lacquered master, and master of the metal plate with a metal version (commonly known as DMM).
The three notches into to DMM the shallowest, lacquer second, and wax master the deepest.
Because the depth of the groove marks directly affect the contact between the friction of the stylus and record. Due to the different depth of the groove marks, therefore they required different kinds of torque that corresponds to each type.
During the development of the TT3 turntable, we conducted torque setting tests for audio enthusiasts in Taiwan. We asked our guests to listen to different torques using different musical instruments on the Internet. The answers were disagreeable and were not focused on certain Torque is to get more preferences.
Take a few examples
*Decca’s engraving is more suitable for high torque settings
*The late DGG in Germany (1970) is more suitable for low torque
*DMM Slim Edition is suitable for medium or low torque
世界首創三段扭力可調整唱盤
從黑膠音軌中挖取更多的訊息，一直都是我們公司的最重要目標;去年我們推出了TT3 唱盤，在業界造成極大的迴響，今年我們推出三段扭力唱盤（TT3可以直接升級 圖一）！
三段扭力的設計初衷
唱盤的母盤的製作，簡單說有三種方式，蠟母版，漆母版跟金屬刻片金屬版（俗稱的DMM）而三者的刻痕以dmm最淺，漆盤次之，蠟母版最深。 因為溝痕的深淺直接影響到唱針跟唱片的之間接觸的摩擦力。所以不同的母版因為溝痕的深淺，所以需要三種扭力來對應。（圖二）
扭力的運用在唱片重播的技術中，一直都沒有唱盤設計師仔細的研究, 因為小馬達的扭力調整，本來就有一定程度的難度；而且過重的轉盤即使用低扭力的馬達，但慣性過大，無法反應出唱頭巡軌時細微的變化。
由於我們的TT3 唱盤是屬於低慣性轉盤，加上三馬達的設計，才能在扭力上來控制，進而實現對應不同刻片的母盤。
在研發TT3 唱盤的過程中，我們針對台灣的音響愛好者進行扭力設定的測試，我們讓客人在網路上使用不同的樂種跟聽不同扭力，得到的答案是很非常分歧的，沒有集中在某種扭力是得到較多的喜好。
舉幾個例子來說
1.Decca 的刻片比較適合高扭力的設定
2.德國的DGG後期（1970）就比較適合中低扭力
3.DMM刻薄版 則適合 中或是低的扭力