Audionet ART G3

The new ART G3 houses the silver disks with the precision and safety of – a safe, away from all external influences. The housing is an elaborate mixture of amorphous granite, steel, aluminium and low-resonance MDF. The ART G3 is also fitted with an ingenious noise-free ventilation concept.

Audionet Aligned Resonance Technology (ART) decouples the read-out unit and the control board from the housing. A mounting system ensures that damaging movement energy is dissipated in a targeted fashion and that the read-out process is subject to a minimum of disturbance. The reading module is a solid tape deck fitted in full aluminium, dampened with heavy foil, sitting on acoustically friendly brass pins. Developed for professional use, the new drive has an exceptionally robust mechanical and electronical construction. It guarantees the highest read-out quality and stability as well as excellent CD acceptance both in terms of surface quality as well as copy protection procedures. Further innovations are the puck and its cylindrical receiver. These two precision rotation parts fit together exactly without any play. The reduced contact surface and the low revolution impulse work together with an exceptionally strong, ring-formed magnet to produce a strong and even contact pressure. The pre-load guarantees an exceptionally stable and smooth disc run.

A solid slider plate isolates the drive from external influences. The slide runs equally and deeply in strong aluminium rails. Together with the machined aluminium ventilation lid of the MDF cover bowl this provides additional stability.

Since the presentation of the first source drive 13 years ago, we have worked continually to reduce jitter, i.e. tremors in digital signal flanks. Jitter errors restrict the sound reproduction in every possible manner, affecting the reproducibility, stage and depth of performance.

In developing the new ART G3 we were able to reduce the jitter of the individual circuitry elements to an almost immeasurable minimum, using a unique structural achievement. For example, our engineers have effectively reduced the jitter of the D/A convertor to a unique 60 picoseconds sigma. To deflect sound-impairing oscillations, the dampened precision tact generator for the sampling convertor and the DACs are located in the read-out unit swinging in the Z direction.

There is no information loss, and all data is processed at the correct time. This enables a unique clarity, depth offset and platform lighting.

Analogue preparation is effected via a differential current/voltage converter and an extremely complicated filter/amplification circuit. The switches are set on an extremely impulse faithful and high border frequency and thus established on the best individual components. The newly-developed Audionet operational amplifier employed here uses the finest tolerated, high audiograde film capacitors. The decoupling stage works internally with a triple degenerative feedback mechanism and an even higher current drive capacity. Overall distortion and internal malfunctions in the new ART G3 have been reduced to an absolute minimum.