You’ll also hear organ, bass and percussion plus secondary percussive backing.įirstly, I was impressed by the bass from the Acutus. The music is little jazzy rock with an easy swing to it.
Akkerman’s electric guitar is distinctly noodly on this track and seems to plug into a Chet Atkins style along the way. I began the tests with an original copy of Jan Akkerman’s Can’t Stand Noise (CBS) from 1983 and the instrumental track Piétons. I know many turntables out there whose entire weight totals half the weight of the Acutus’ platter! Spanning 460 x 400 x 210mm, the Acutus stands tall with grand suspension pillars giving it an almost Romanesque architectural look. In fact, it weighs a total of 28.5kg with the platter on its own fetching 10kg. This is a big deck, it is imposing and weighty. There is a reason for that but I’ll get to that point later on. This is a recognised package from AVID, one that its distributors are happy to present to potential customers and so I will reserve my comments on the turntable and the package as a whole. My review sample features a SME fitting and a SME IV tonearm. Having been rather slow in catching up with the improvements, I thought I’d look at the turntable afresh now that I have heard that upgrade. My experience of the Acutus began before it was upgraded by AVID to the SP status which included the additional of a second belt – yes, this is a belt-driven turntable.
A high end turntable based on a thoughtful and intriguing design, Paul Rigby reviews the AVID Acutus SP turntable
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