Type: manual with cueing
Arm: Unconstrained unipivot, carbon fiber pultruded shaft, 11" effective length, with adjustable cartridge angle, anti-skate, fast swap, and on-the-fly adjustable VTA
Effective Mass: 13.0g without cartridge
Standard cartridge: Audio-Technica AT-VM95EN or Grado Opus3 (Timbre Series, high output version)
Drive: belt drive
Platter: 11.75”, 3 lb, aluminium alloy diecast
Bearing: inverted, 0.5" dia x 2.5" long, Igus
Speeds: 33 and 45rpm, selected via pulley size
Rumble: -74dB
Signal to noise ratio: >72dB
Wow and flutter: less than 0.11%
Power: 16VAC, 60 Hz, 8VA via included wall-wart
Dimensions: 16.5 x 14 x 6" (approximate, depends on orientation and settings)
Weight: 9.5 lbs

Sol
Cast Aluminum Unipivot Turntable
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So, sell me on Sol.
LOL. You don’t know us very well, do you? We have exactly zero salespeople. We don’t have anyone with sales in their title, period. Bottom line, like we said, if you want a great turntable for a price that won’t jeopardize your kid’s college fund, Sol is it. Sol is already set up and ready to go with a cartridge (but of course, you will need a phono preamp.) But it's still 100% manual, 100% tweaky, and 100% off the beaten path. If that’s not what you’re looking for, or if you have a trust fund so big that it would shade 9% of the earth’s surface if run off as $100 bills, then yeah, we get it, it’s best to look elsewhere. No hard feelings.
- Die-cast aluminum vs MDF and acrylic. Sol is made of large aluminum die-castings, which are heavy and dense when compared to the typical MDF and acrylic starter table.
- Giant bearing, vs baby bearing. Unless you’re talking cost-no-object turntable designs, the critical platter bearing is usually, well, somewhat anemic. Frequently based on the 0.28” record spindle, they may only have an effective 0.5-1” height. Sol’s is a ridiculously overdeveloped 0.5” diameter, 2.5” long inverted bearing with Igus bushings, for much higher performance.
- Giant arm vs baby arm. In turntables, tonearm length is all-important. Sol’s 11” arm beats the living crap out of other entry turntables with 8-10” arms.
- Easily swappable arm, vs arm that’s permanently attached. Have more than one cartridge? Get additional (very affordable) Sol tonearms and set them all up, for cartridge swaps in seconds.
- True unconstrained unipivot vs other schemes. Other entry turntables use constrained unipivots, kinda killing the advantages of a unipivot—namely, the unique freedom of motion it provides—or conventional designs, which don’t work like a unipivot.
- Totally isolated motor, vs bolted to the plinth. No entry turntable can match Sol’s freedom from rumble, because the motor is completely separate.
- On-the-fly adjustable VTA, versus, well, maybe some VTA adjustment when the table isn’t moving. Sol is the only turntable anywhere near its price to include this insanely high-end feature, allowing you to precisely dial in the performance—while listening.
- Complete adjustability, vs limited adjustability. Since literally every parameter of the Sol turntable is adjustable, it can accommodate virtually any cartridge, including those that are thicker or thinner than usual.
- 5-year warranty. On a mechanical product? For $799? GTFOH. Nobody is anywhere near that.
There are plenty of them available on Amazon (and pretty much anywhere else you might want to buy them). Look for "Stylus force gauge." They range from $15 to "how much you got?"
See the Downloads section and follow the link to Conrad Hoffman's Arc Template Generator. You can also purchase many other different alignment discs, mirrors, etc. if you'd like to. You aren't stuck with a specific alignment with Sol.
There are several ways to set it up, starting with a Trackability Test Record (Shure made one.) You listen to a track with ever increasing levels. At some point it will get slightly harsh in one channel, then the other. Adjust the anti-skate force so that both channels become harsh at the same time. Try not to let it get into full mistracking. Another way is to use a blank vinyl record and adjust for minimum drift. .
Sol Lofgren A Alignment PDF
Other alignments available with Conrad Hoffman's Arc Template Generator