Galibier news, product development, etc.
We just solved an interesting mounting challenge. A customer presented us with a Kuzma 4Point-9 mount for a Luxman PD-171A turntable. Well, ferreting out mounting details is a strength of ours, but this one really pushed us to the limit. Geek alert … this post is overflowing with numbers, diagrams and techno-speak. If high-school trigonometry …
The first post in this series (For Want of a Nail) was inspired by lessons learned – both in the manufacturing as well as final assembly of our 2019 drive system update. So, we’re back on the trail, finalizing the design of our Savoie (idler drive – formerly named the Eiger), and it’s no surprise …
Our customers expect a lot of us, and one of them is a fellow you may know from his Audiogon screen name: “palasr”. He was an early Galibier adopter and when Joel Durand asked me for recommendations for a beta test group for the Durand Talea, he was one of the first people who came …
While experimenting with faceplate finishes for our NiWatt amplifiers, we arrived at a surface preparation process that’s more consistent and easier to apply than bead blasting.
Through the years, Verdier and Redpoint owners (as well as owners of other turntables) have been persistent in their requests for a Galibier drive system (we’re flattered). Leveraging lessons learned from our recent drive system update, we have streamlined our production capabilities, and we’re proud to announce that we have re-instituted our drive system retrofit/upgrade …
Steve Guttenberg interviewed one of my customers (Mark) who is a location sound engineer. My customers are some of the smartest and happiest people. Mark discusses his job, how it relates to his audio hobby, his system (including his hybrid Galibier turntable), and his generally happy approach to both life and his hi-fi.
We sold a customer some late stage prototype, Wind River speaker cables. He loved them, and asked us about our design approach and how we arrived at our current production cables. So here you go … 15 months’ development summarized in a few paragraphs.
It’s all too infrequent, that beautiful mechanical construction and good sound come in the same audio connector. It had gotten to the point where I developed a prejudice against “pretty” connectors. ETIs new power connectors are one such instance where the twin stars of beauty and function align.
It’s been a long haul, but the pulleys for our 2019 update are nearing completion. We specified a runout tolerance of .0002″ to .0005″ (that’s 2-5 ten-thousandths) and our machinist has finally cleared his bench to develop a quality control process. The pulley is a small part, but it would be a mistake to underestimate …
The Mk II turntable series represented a shift from pivoting (rotating) armboards to sliding armboards. After the production launch, we looked into the possibility of this sliding armboard architecture trickling down to our Mark I series turntables The result was the Mk 1.5 conversion. The only downside to this conversion is the sacrifice of dual …
