The One Degree of Gold instrument

Posted by kamal on August 27th, 2016

The One Degree of Freedom turntable is the most sensitive engineering instrument for reproducing vinyl records. Designed, manufactured and hand assembled with exact precision, one unique piece of art at a time by Aleks Bakman, a decorated by NASA aerospace engineer. Idea of a perfect, zero tolerance self- centering non-resonant friction free bearing came to Bakman in 2000, when he was skiing up the 4,350 metre high Quandary Peak in Colorado. Research, calculations, and design took evenings and weekends of more than five years. Aleks's day job at that time was developing spacecraft for Lockheed Martin Space Systems. Finally the first manufactured bearing had shown better than expected performance. The trouble was that the science did not stand still all those years.