Linn . SMEto avoid colouration of the original recording.
To attain this balance it is important that no part of the tonearm, arm-board, sub-chassis main bearing or platter can absorb energyor . REGA & NAIM ARO are Available Now
! Please state Requirement with order !
Vinyl Passion LP-12 Unity - Two Aerospace Chassis Armboard & Blue Spring Upgrade Kit
Unity - Two Chassis and Armboard combination are both CNC milled from 10mm Solid Billet Aerospace T6 Alloy
Please see our other kit listings for Unity - One kit fitted with VP-1 Carbon Acrylic Armboard
We are happy to ship directly to your local dealer for fitting
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The Unity - Two Kit consists of one Unity heat treated Aerospace Alloy lp-12 sub-chassis
One pre-torque fitted Unity - Two Aerospace Alloy Armboard for Linn Rega or SME
Please see our other listing for our new Unity two Naim Aro kit
One set of New Linn Rubbers & One set of Vinyl Passion Blue Springs
3x M4 Stainless Steel Bolts for black main bearing or 3x M 3.5 Alan bolts for early Silver & Gold Linn main
bearings
Please state with order
We are happy to torque fit your main bearing at our premises if you supply it to us prior to purchase
We can also fit and build any of our upgrades at our premises or supply to your local dealer if required
Feedback From our first E Bay Unity Two Customer
Dear vinylpassionuk,
Hi Mark,
Just a final note to let you know how the system is going.
The turntable has settled and re-levelled, cart aligned, tracking force set and the suspension has a nice bounce ( settles in 30-40 oscillations ) I think there is more settling to go, but I want to listen to some music first.
It has become extremely sensitive to VTA and tracking force. I see this as a good thing, it means that details that simply mushed together before are more discernible now and everything is more sharply focused Bass goes down much deeper and with more detail also very sensitive to VTA.
My son, who is of the MP3 generation, and listens to things that sometimes resemble music, came around and had a listen. He may have better ears than me, but I think I have more educated ones. I played Eva Cassidy's Fields of Gold (on 180g vinyl 2013 production) He was transfixed! What is worrying is that he wants to bring his friends around to listen. I hope the Unity 2 is son proof!
Overall, what the Unity 2 has done is bring out the feeling of being there, when you are convinced that there is a living, breathing presence in front of you, something that transcends just sound. It is something that vinyl can do easily that digital finds hard to do. In my experience, it is something that only the best systems can achieve and I don't think there is any measurement for it. The Unity 2 + a reasonable condition used Linn, with a hard decent arm (maybe a Rega) plus a MM line contact cart, can get anyone there at a cost that doesn't require you to mortgage your house.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart (and ears) for bringing the Unity 2 to the audio world!
Best wishes,
Stephen
Thank you, Stephen, your feedback is greatly appreciated and it is this kind of emotional engagement for which the Unity project was designed
Many thanks for your feedback Mark & Jan
Unity - Two Chassis and armboard combination
The Concept
discover the very best materials from which to create our Unity Chassis combination and have now developed a totally new inert armboard,
sub-chassis and suspension system that allows the very highest performance levels to be produced from your LP-12 turntable.
Unity - Two For The Ultimate in Engineering
Vinyl Passion are pioneers in the development of the T-6 Aerospace Alloy Armboard & Chassis
- Designed for those demanding the very highest performance from the LP-12.
Vinyl Passion utilises the same highly specialised heat treatment process to produce the ultimate Arm-board
to match the ultimate Chassis for your LP-12 we call this combination the Unity - Two
The Unity Aerospace Sub Chassis
Recognising the need to improve the internal structure of the LP-12 even further has brought forth the development of the Unity - Two Armboard
This new Vinyl Passion combination of Sub-Chassis and Arm Board is the perfect marriage of materials
providing your tone arm a perfect platform to perform at its very best.
The Unity - Two hardened Aerospace Alloy Arm Board is precision torque fitted directly to the hardened Aerospace Alloy Chassis
with non magnetic Stainless Steel bolts to make a totally rigid perfectly aligned and resonant free joint
this is easily as strong as any one piece unit with the added flexibility of interchangeable arm boards.
Unity - Two Chassis and armboard combination CNC milled from 10mm Solid Billet Aerospace T6 Alloy
We considered several engineering polymers including a full carbon acrylic but after extensive testing all were rejected due to very tiny but still
unacceptable levels of energy absorption. for those demanding the best from there LP 12
Finally we have chosen the same Aerospace Alloy that is used to mount the Rolls Royce Trent 1000 Turbine Engines to British Airliners.
And after specialist cutting and shaping the Aerospace Alloy Unity - Two Chassis & Armboard is firstly chemically soaked and then baked in a furnace to reach its full
hardness before being hard-anodised to tune the whole unit to its perfect temper.
Unity - Two Unique Shape
The unusual shape of the Unity - Two chassis & Armboard has been developed by an ingenious Cad Program that has analysed every millimetre of the cross section of
the Aerospace Alloy.. when cut in its first sample Unity - Two is designed to create this new unique shape that ensures a non-uniform cross section that
eliminates energy loss or absobsion.
The Icing on The Cake
The standard LP-12 chassis & Arboard is often distorted making perfect alignment impossible.
The Unity main bearing and arm-board & Unity - Two armboard seats are milled to be exactingly flat
This guarantees perfect alignment of the stylus to the record groove.
Unity Chassis Excited Springs
Last but not least - We were very excited with the test results of the Unity Chassis
However, there was one final issue detected on analysing the sub-chassis under test conditions. This was a very small but occasional excitement of
the standard springs. We decided after going this far we may as well finish the job properly but this turned out to be a trickier process than
anticipated. Nonetheless, numerous experiments and consultations later we again turned to the Aviation industry for the solution.
The new springs we have developed use a special anti harmonic Blue coating that was developed for Aerospace engine parts and this has very
successfully completely removed the excitement problems at audio frequency
This is why we created the blue springs to allow your Unity Chassis to perform as intended
Unity - One & Two Good Vibrations !
We have enjoyed this development project immensely and believe the Unity - One & Unity -Two offer the finest products on the market to get the very most from
your LP-12 at a fair price.
Having owned LP-12’s and SME turntables for many years it feels good to have at last added the final touches to the creation of an LP-12 with the
dynamics and detail of the SME yet retaining the warmth and musicality for which the Linn is so much loved and hopefully at a price that is
affordable to the enthusiast. Enjoy
Both the Unity - One & Unity - Two Are avaliable for demonstration at our relaxed premises
Vinyl Passion built LP 12 Upgraded with Unity Subchassis and Unity One Armboard on Demonstration at our premises
Vinyl Passion built LP 12 upgraded with Unity Subchassis and Unity Two Armboard on Demonstration at our premises
Vinyl Passion... To arrange a demonstration book an appointment on 01623 844478
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