VERTERE IMPERIUM MOTOR DRIVE ANNOUNCED

Vertere Acoustics’ Touraj Moghaddam has announced plans to start delivering the new Vertere Imperium Motor Drive this month.

The Vertere Imperium follows quite closely behind the new SG-PTA tonearm and VeRum interconnect as products to match the Vertere SG-1 record player.

Vertere Imperium Motor Drive

VERTERE IMPERIUM MOTOR DRIVE

London based Vertere say that demand for the latest Motor Drive, subsequently called the Vertere Imperium, was driven by owners of SG-1 and RG-1 record players looking for a Motor Drive superior in performance to Tempo but more affordable than the Reference MD.

Imperium’s design derives from Vertere’s Reference Motor Drive: it includes a simplified power supply and control functions. As a result, it sits above last year’s launch of the Tempo. The key was to make a motor drive with as pure a sine and cosine wave output and as little noise as possible. The design and cabling also had to consider possible RF pickup and ingress.

Rear of the Vertere Imperium Motor Drive

ALUMINIUM SHELL

Enclosed in a precision CNC milled from solid aluminium shell lies a twin-regulated linear power supply feeding the primary circuit, the 12V external supply for the record player’s illumination and the digital regulation for the microprocessor and DAC.

Inside the Vertere Imperium Motor Drive

The double screened programmable and updateable microprocessor digitally generates the sine and cosine waves (which are switchable to be ± 0, 0.25%, 0.5%) to the equally double screened DAC. The output of the DAC feeds two ‘power amps’ provided by an extremely clean supply to drive the approximately 17V the motor requires.

CLEAN POWER

Gold-plated two-layer PCB utilising extensive ground planes, fully regulated voltage rails powering different circuit sections, and carefully selected components, ensure in-control and ‘clean’ final delivery of power to the motor. The PCB mixes SMD and thru-hole components using the best of both technologies. Copper foil shields the entire digital, microprocessor and DAC circuitry is first, and then the whole PCB is secondarily shielded using a stainless-steel shield plate.

Side view of the Vertere Imperium Motor Drive

The motor drive output is a high-quality gold plated 7-way thread-locked DIN connector, connecting Imperium power to the record player via a dedicated motor link cable. Vertere Imperium is supplied fully optimised and set up for the record player motor. In the case of an upgrade, the retailer can adjust the output voltage and phase for absolutely the lowest motor noise and vibration. This is adjustable for both 33.3 and 45rpm rotational speeds.

VERTERE IMPERIUM MOTOR DRIVE PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

Vertere Imperium is available to order now and will sell for £7950, 9998€, $11995, CAD$14995, AUS$ 17995. The Imperium packaging includes a motor link and a 2m Redline mains cable.

HiFi Pig Says: Vertere continue to be one of the UK’s higher-end turntable brand’s and we do like the fact they call their machines ‘record players’…for that is exactly what they do.

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