Introducing Nottingham Analogue 

Supremely Musical World Famous Turntables

Nottingham Analogue is a well respected British manufacturer of high quality, specialty audio products. For over 35 years Nottingham engineers have been producing innovative designs which excel at allowing the music to come through in its purest form.

Their turntables are known for precision and purity, ultra quiet noise floor, supreme musicality, quality build and remarkable value. 

"All our products sound the same, the only difference is there is less and less fatigue and you get a little bit closer to the illusion of real live music the higher you go up our product ladder." - Tom Fletcher, engineer/owner, Nottingham Analogue Studios.

Interspace

The Nottingham line begins with the Interspace, pictured at right, with its matching carbon fiber arm, also made by Nottingham Analogue. The Interspace represents one of the very best values offered in high-end audio. This affordable table delivers a stunning musical performance. Have a listen to an Interspace - you won't believe the performance offered for the money! 

Spacedeck

The Spacedeck, right, has what Ultimate Audio called "a big, stable, stunning sound", and according to Listener "real music, explosive dynamic attack, high extraction of detail, taut base, focus and authority".

SPACEDECK WINS THE ABSOLUTE SOUND'S EDITOR'S BEST BUY AWARD.

 "from its ultra-quiet backdrop to its mastery of pace and space, explosive and agile dynamics, harmonic integrity, tonal continuity, saturated images, and deep yet nimble bass. So engaging the reviewer bought the review sample". - TAS. 

The Spacedeck is the most popular Nottingham Analogue table, with over 10,000 sold worldwide.

ACE Space NEW!

Although the ACE Space turntable looks identical to the Spacedeck, it benefits from very substantial improvements which you will hear straight away.

This turntable includes many features from Nottingham's Hyperspace and higher performance tables. The ACE gets the better bearing and oil pumping system of its big brothers. This gives a quieter bearing and thus, critically important, a lower noise floor.

The armbase is upgraded from the Spacedeck's aluminum to a heavier lead impregnated steel giving it a heavier mass and thus a better damping platform for the arm. The motor housing of the ACE is also upgraded from aluminum to steel/lead with twice the mass as the old Spacedeck. This better damping means reduced motor resonances. (Weight approx. 35kg.)

All in all much better performance for the same price as the old Spacedeck.

Space 294  NEW!

This highly innovative design has all the above mentioned improvements but the '294' also has a 14" platter giving much more rotational stability due to the additional inertia. The turntable is specifically for 12" (294mm) tonearms only and cannot be fitted with a second tonearm.

Twelve inch tonearms are nothing new for Nottingham Analogue, the longer arm results in a smaller tracking error, and Nottingham has cleverly eliminated the pitfalls of common 12" tonearms.

The new Space 294 will get you closer to the illusion of real music than you ever thought possible at a price that will send you record shopping with a smile on your face. Check our dealer links and visit your closest Nottingham dealer to hear this clever, terrific system.

"Turntables should be seen and not heard. Turntable platforms - nice wooden table or a table with no spikes - we do not want the bottom end filtered away to nothing, we don't want the so called clear sound without musical emotion."  - Tom Fletcher.

Hyperspace

The Hyperspace, pictured below, is the entry model in Nottingham's elite-class table range.

According to Tom Fletcher, Managing Director of Nottingham Analogue: "Before the Hyperspace we made our now very popular turntable, the Spacedeck. With the Hyperspace, we have taken the principles of the Spacedeck a long way forward. It is not just a bigger looking Spacedeck.

The bearings are almost directly from our earlier (and much more expensive) Mentor turntable. The platter weight is well over twice that of the Spacedeck. The thrust assembly is unique by having the oil continually pumped around it - not just relying on the oil getting between the two surfaces on its own. The motor is more isolated, which means less resonance and, because of the ratio of platter weights to motor power, the platter and armboard hardly know the motor is there at all. 

The 'mat' on the interface between the record and Hyperspace is a 25mm thick graphite platter – which, when married to the soft alloy underneath and coupled by the three anti-expansion rubber rings round the platter, forms a very inert combination indeed.

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To put your record on a non-ringing material is not the total answer. There is still a speed dissipation needed from the interface of the styli to record; ie., every millisecond in time your styli runs along your record groove it not only gives you information, it creates heat and resonance. The resonance does not want to be hanging around until the next few milliseconds, because we only want to play now - not history and not future. So the marriage of materials is all coupled with a motor that your record/styli interface cannot detect. Shiny pieces of stainless steel and thick slow transmitting pieces of perspex are not the materials we tend to use to make beautiful looking machines - I would rather have a violin made of wood than gold plated brass!

With the Hyperspace, fitted with either our ACE Space arm or Anna Arm, the illusion of music comes over without you noticing the machinery."

"Digits belong to calculators not to music. I don't envy the distributors and dealers today, if they have a passion to sell an illusion of music in someone's home they have to battle through the world's brainwashed population trying to convince them that real music is right!"  - Tom Fletcher.

Dais

Nottingham Analogue's recently developed Dais is the ultimate turntable upgrade. The Dais, pictured below, is Nottingham's elite performance table, offerings ultra-high-end performance approaching the Anna Log but in a less elaborate more affordable package.

Dais - a raised platform for the conductor of an orchestra. Nottingham Analogue had a very successful turntable of this same name which they stopped making in 1978. There are still many happy Dais owners enjoying their music on these machines.

The new Dais replaces the Mentor turntable. After 19 years the Mentor was dropped because its old chassis could not incorporate Nottingham's new thoughts on music extraction.

Nottingham Analogue has always been concerned with what people stand their turntables on, especially glass and spikes, so the base board for the new Dais consists of a relatively thin platform base under which there is a 90% covering of damping material. When this damping material is put onto the chosen surface there is more of a 'marriage' between the turntable and surface.

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Many ideas have spun off from the Anna Log, Nottingham's top turntable until the recent debut of the  Decco, - the back parallel arm mounting structure controls much of the resonance without taking the mass, relying on 80% of the mass resonance to be transferred to one adjustable front leg. The motor is conveniently out of sight in the preferred position at the back. A very similar male/female bearing arrangement is used from the Anna development - a unique leveling device is also fitted to the bearing, which is factory set but can be altered by the owner if necessary.

The massive 20kg of gravity spun iron platter, with one of the highest inertia of any turntable on the market today, gives solidity and a picture of a performance with remarkable diction.  Sitting on top of this platter is a 25mm thick graphite 'mat', along with the anti-expansion bands this adds the final damping to the platter.

The Wave Mechanic power supply works extremely well and doesn't rob us of dynamic range, and achieving this is no easy feat! The power supply is total - that is mains power goes in but completely regenerated power and frequency comes out to the turntable. The Dais can accommodate two arms, and is very easy to set up and level.

"As you can tell we are very excited about this machine for its ability to entertain."

The Anna Log

"Once in a decade or two something comes along, so special, so unique, so magnificent it's destined to be a classic and enjoyed for a lifetime."

Well, what a problem! We want no motor, no record player, just some music please - if only it could be done.

The Anna Log turntable is a masterpiece at controlling unwanted resonances. Rather than allow the resonances to scatter every which way, like a stone falling into a pond sends waves out in all directions, the wooden log, (which is made from approximately 20 pieces of pitch pine timber glued together into a spiral), helps to break down unwanted resonances and forces them to run east to west, and vice-versa. Since resonances travel in a direction known to us we are able to guide and control the vibration which is then damped at either end by varying lengths of damping material. Thus the resonances do not return a millisecond later to compete with the musical information that is happening now. (And, yes, the wood in the Anna Log does indeed come from a beam taken out of a 200 year old mill.)

The feet of the Anna have special rubber that has an affinity with 50Hz. This is excellent for helping to damp motor resonance. Motor resonance is further minimized by the tried and tested use of our very low powered motors. Thus in the Anna there is an absolute minimum of vibration going into the bearing platter, arm and styli interface.

The thrust of an Anna has a pump so each time the outside of the platter moves 100th of a millimeter the thrust bearing has a complete change of oil. The platter is a gravity spun cast iron, and has no imperfections on its surface or internally to cause it to be out of balance. The centre of both sides of the platter has been removed so most of the weight is on the outside giving a very great movement of inertia. The platter is carried by a spindle of cobalt steel onto a special thrust bearing. On top of the cast iron platter sits a 25mm thick graphite 'mat' providing complete damping along the top of platter. Three expansion rings on the side of the platter further eliminate resonances without effecting the speed of getting rid of the unwanted platter/stylus resonances. With resonances absolutely vanquished the turntable will only play the music being performed now, not the history, not the future.

"If you love the emotional connection of real music, the illusion of being in the concert hall, and you want to re-create that feeling, rather than just listen to hi-fi 'tricks', then hear the music through a Nottingham table, and it's likely the Nottingham will be the last table you ever buy."