Lively by name. Unhurried by nature.
In music, allegro marks a lively, quick tempo. We gave the name to a turntable that carries as much of our flagship, the Symphony, as we could bring into a smaller footprint: its 75-millimetre Ultra MDF plinth, its 60-millimetre Delrin platter and thicker sub-platter, its large-profile GAIA IV footers, its stainless steel armboard, and its Conductor SE. The teardrop shape is the Allegro’s own.
A teardrop has no straight edge to follow, so it needs a veneer with no single direction: a figure that reads the same whichever way the light falls. Every veneer is chosen by hand and cut from the sheet with a template, so no knot, split or flaw reaches the finished plinth.
Walnut Burl
SatinBurl forms where a walnut tree has grown around an injury: a dense, knotted mass that, cut and laid flat, shows swirls and rings no straight-grained board can. In satin it reads soft and deep, near black in the shadows and chestnut where the light lands.
Bird’s Eye Maple
SatinOne of the rarest figures in maple: small, swirling eyes scattered across a pale golden ground. Its cause is still not fully understood, and no two leaves carry the same pattern.
Choose the finish
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The engineering
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75-mm Ultra MDF plinth.
Cut from Ultra MDF, sourced in the United States from one of very few makers of it. It is extremely dense and close to resonance-free, and, unlike solid wood, it does not swell, shrink or twist with the humidity of a room. Nor does it vary from board to board, so every Allegro sounds the same, while no two look alike.
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Veneered by hand. Finished by machine.
Each veneer is laid by hand, and the plinth is then machined on CNC to its exact form.
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Large-profile GAIA IV footers.
Four large-profile GAIA IV footers, developed with IsoAcoustics for our turntables, with a wide contact on the surface beneath, keep the shelf’s vibration out of the record.
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Ruby bearing in bronze.
A ruby ball, rated 9 on the Mohs scale of hardness, one step below diamond, turns in a well of bronze. Bronze is harder than the brass most makers use, with a lower coefficient of friction. With a stainless steel shaft on a sub-platter of aluminum and stainless steel, three hard materials meet with very little friction between them. Less friction means less noise. Less noise means more music.
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60-mm Delrin platter.
Its mass acts as a flywheel: once the record is up to speed, it stays there, and the platter stands between the record and the vibration around it. Delrin behaves much like vinyl itself, so the platter does not ring, and the record needs no mat.
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A motor chosen first.
A custom three-watt, 12 V AC synchronous motor, made for us in the Netherlands specifically for turntables, drives the platter through dual belts. It is small and gentle by design, and close to silent. Pure Fidelity tables are known as some of the quietest in the industry, and this pairing of motor and controller is a large part of why.
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The Conductor SE.
The motor was chosen before its controller was designed, so the Conductor SE is built around it. Its quartz-locked processor holds 33⅓ and 45 rpm to within ±0.003%, and its 35-watt transformer gives the drive far more in reserve than the motor draws. Designed and built in British Columbia, and set to speed on our bench before it ships.
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Stainless steel armboard.
A tall armboard in stainless steel, dense and rigid, so that the only thing moving is the stylus in the groove. It takes any nine-inch tonearm.
Specifications & finishes.
Built to order
Yours, from the first cut.
Every Allegro is built by hand to its owner’s order. Choose the wood, the tonearm and the cartridge, or ask us to quote a finish that exists nowhere else.
Complete the system
Build your setup.
The tables and the cartridge that share the Allegro’s bench.
Configure your Allegro.
Every Allegro is built by hand to order, with tonearm, cartridge and finish all yours to choose. Contact us, and we will help you find the right setup for the way you listen.
