XL AIR

The XL AIR is our flagship turntable, a record player that takes that concept and the search for ultimate performance to its logical extreme.

Adding an additional, cast bronze damping layer to the existing XL platter increases rotational inertia and significantly improves its critical resonant behaviour. Doubling the weight of the XL DC’s already massive platter from 22 to 44 kg is a huge step towards records reproducing reality – but it’s not without its own challenges. The massive weight increase reduces the platter’s mechanical signature but also means that the friction levels generated in a conventional bearing would generate unacceptable mechanical noise, undermining any advantage, so we have chosen to employ an airbearing to support the increased load, a close tolerance, high-pressure bi-axial design. The huge surface areas of the bearing’s inner and outer faces are separated
by a gap of 0.005 mm. The compressor fills that gap with high-pressure air that floats the bearing yet delivers vertical and horizontal rigidity, reducing rotational resistance to almost zero.

The combination of the massive platter, zero friction air-bearing and the increased height and weight of the XL AIR arm-towers delivers an incredibly low noise-floor, convincing musical scale, presence and dimensionality, dynamics that match live performance. Bringing records to life, matching the vivid drama of the live event, demands the best. That best is the Kuzma XL AIR.

XL AIR – when only the best will do.