Acoustical Systems Aquilar
Acoustical Systems Aquilar
Acoustical Systems Aquilar
the AQUILAR (origin from ancient latin "aquila" - the eagle)
offers many of the prime choice and expensive materials, as well as most of the unique technical key solutions which made the AXIOM's performance easily standing heads above all competition.
the AQUILAR comes equipped with an unique bundle of features:
- 10” & 12” effective lengths available.
- very easy and swift set up
- customized dedicated 3D-alignment template
- non-resonance HD18 tungsten carbide counterweight
- unique acoustical-systems non-resonance titanium/carbon-hybrid arm wand
- precision leveling of bearing plane - independent of arm board / turntable
- adjustable SRA, VTA, Azimuth, Overhang and Offset angle at headshell
- VTA adjustement on-the-fly
- non-touch magnetic Antiskating on-the-fly
- dynamic anti skating following the tangential curve
- the design is based on the unique UNI-DIN* geometry
- the critical inner wiring is fine 5N pure silver litz wire
Product specifications
Acoustical Systems Aquilar – 10" Reference Tonearms, geometry: UNI-DIN
Effective length according to Loefgren A: 254 mm
Fulcrum distance to turntable center: (10”) length 238 mm offset angle variable, about 17° - 25°, (12”) length 288mm
Turntable center spindle distance to center of tonearm tower (10”) 233mm, (12”) 288mm
Overhang: variable, about 5 to 16 mm
Effective moving mass: 11.4 g (10”)
Effective moving mass: 15.5 g - 18.8g (12”), depending upon lateral and end snub counterweight configuration.
Internal wiring: highly flexible, aged pure silver strand
Resistance of the internal wiring: 0,9 Ohm/m
Capacity of the internal wiring: 25 pF/m
Possible Cartridge weight: 5,2 to 30 g
Adjustment ranges
Setting of the level of the bearing: +/- 6° horizontal
Height adjustment of the tonearm: 15 mm
Setting of the offset angle: +/- 4°
Overhang: max. 11 mm
Azimuth adjustment: +/- 8°
Setting of the stylus rake angle: 97° to 84°
Setting of the vertical tracing angle: 28° to 14°