The "Q"
Analog Solutions by Hornsolutions
Where the impossible becomes audible
The world’s first high-mass turntable that doesn’t just isolate — it intelligently conducts energy.
The first that unites belt drive and direct drive in perfect harmony.
The first that turns the biggest problem of extreme isolation into its greatest advantage.
Discover The Q – the boundary of analog possibility.
Dimensions
980 mm width × 900mm depth × 1300 mm height
≈ 380 kg (net)weigh
The revolutionary core: Controlled Energy Flow
Most ultra-high-end air-bearing turntables chase total floatation.
Result: the precious stylus energy (10–100 µW, up to 10,000 vibrations/sec) gets trapped in the platter — reflects, modulates, returns phase-shifted → micro-compression, hardening, reduced space, that typical “cool-metallic” signature.
We solved it differently.
We give this energy a deliberate, adjustable, phase-correct path out of the system — before it can harm the music.
Patented Central Energy Conduction Axis
- Precision spring (manually tunable)
- 15 cm V2A stainless steel shaft (rotates with platter)
- 12 mm hardened steel ball
- Ultra-low-friction Teflon mirror
→ Platter → spring → shaft → ball → Teflon → stable tripod/chassis
Result: dramatically more open, relaxed, spatially deep and natural sound.
Laboratory-Grade Silence
Horizontal + vertical air bearing with 0.1 µmconcentricity — one of the most precise bearings ever built for audio.
World-First Dual-Drive Architecture
- Belt — 168 mm Ø massive flywheel pulley (1.6 kg) only the Pulley
→ Rotation frequencies only 1.11 Hz / 1.50 Hz → all harmonics up to 10th below audibility
→ Huge contact area → minimal slip → high torque like friction drive, without the noise - Direct — 100% pole-jitter-free torque motor integrated inside the air bearing(world first)
→ 18,000 laser points per revolution → 50× interpolation → up to 900,000 corrections per side
Measured Reality
Wow & flutter
0.01 % direct drive
0.03 % belt drive
→ New reference class
Platter & Energy Management
- Top: 5 kg POM, decoupled via precision spikes
- Bottom: 16 kg multi-layer sandwich construction
- Three-material layering + epoxy resin infusion → near-perfect internal damping
Sub-Chassis – Two-Level Mastery
- Tripod (bearing + tonearm bases)
- Central multi-metal plate (mutual resonance cancellation)
- Brass energy spike in center → defined drainage
- Outer POM spikes → acoustic isolation
- 6-point star base (Lu/steel/POM layers)
- Floats on tunable aperiodic pneumatic dampers (two-chamber system)
- Sub-chassis resonance < 1 Hz — the isolation gold standard
All parts deliberately compact → minimal air-borne sound attack surface
Completely External Control
The Control Unit — separate housing containing:
- Air bearing management
- Aperiodic damper regulation
- Drive mode selection
→ Zero electronics/heat/power-supply noise in the turntable itself
Tonearm Platform – The Missing Link
- Eccentric solid brass mounting disc (custom for 9–14” arms)
- Hangs on three precision spikes
- Heavy counterweight underneath → perfect level
→ Clean energy flow: tonearm → brass → spikes → sub-chassis
→ Extreme isolation from disturbances
→ Full tonearm change in ≈20 seconds (all parameters preserved)
→ Up to three arms simultaneously
→ Unused bases disappear behind elegant cover plates
The Q is not another turntable.
It is the moment analog engineering finally grew up:
Radical isolation and intelligent energy guidance
Extreme precision and musical soul
Technology that serves emotion
Retail price on request
Private auditions · Custom configurations · Worldwide distribution
Analog Solutions by Hornsolutions
Because the finest sound is not created by ignoring energy —
but by mastering where it goes.
Are you ready to hear what happens when physics stops fighting music?
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