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Vertere Acoustics
Website:https://www.vertereacoustics.com/
Est. year: 2006
Vertere Acoustics is a London analogue specialist founded by engineer Touraj Moghaddam, who earlier worked at Roksan. It builds turntables, tonearms, motor drives, phono cartridges, phono preamplifiers and cables, and also handles UK distribution of FM Acoustics. Its catalogue covers every stage of a record player, from the power supply feeding the motor to the cable leaving the phono stage.
Range & what it's known for
The record players run from the DG X Dynamic Groove through the MG-1 MK II Magic Groove and the SG-1 Super Groove to the RG-1 Reference Groove. Tonearms start with the Super Groove Precision and its HB version, and rise through the Super Groove II Pathfinder to the Reference Tonearm Gen III. The cartridge line includes the Sabre Lite, Sabre and Dark Sabre moving-magnet models, the Mystic II, Xtrax and Ruby One moving-coil designs and the Solo mono MC, priced from GBP 495 for the Sabre Lite to GBP 9,200 for the Ruby One. The PHONO-1 LX and Calon phono preamplifiers, dedicated motor drives and DC power supplies and the HB, Verum, Redline and Blackline cable families complete the system. The design approach follows one stated aim, removing parts rather than adding them.
Who owns it and where it's made
Vertere Limited is a privately held British company, with Touraj Moghaddam as founder and creative lead and Ashley Dyer, with the firm almost from the start, as director. Operations manager Urmila Waghajiani joined in 2012 after more than a decade as Moghaddam's assistant at Roksan. The business is based at Oliver Business Park in north-west London, where it handles design, sales and technical support.
The lineup in this catalog
Turntables, tonearms and cables. The DG X turntable costs GBP 3,650, the RG-1 GBP 30,000 and up, and tonearms start at GBP 2,695.
Who it's for
Vertere is built for a record system in which the whole analogue chain, from motor drive to cartridge and phono stage, comes from a single designer. The DG X with a Sabre cartridge is a common start, the MG-1 MK II and Super Groove tonearms are the next step, and the SG-1 and RG-1 with the Reference arm and Ruby One serve owners building a top-tier record player.
Range & what it's known for
The record players run from the DG X Dynamic Groove through the MG-1 MK II Magic Groove and the SG-1 Super Groove to the RG-1 Reference Groove. Tonearms start with the Super Groove Precision and its HB version, and rise through the Super Groove II Pathfinder to the Reference Tonearm Gen III. The cartridge line includes the Sabre Lite, Sabre and Dark Sabre moving-magnet models, the Mystic II, Xtrax and Ruby One moving-coil designs and the Solo mono MC, priced from GBP 495 for the Sabre Lite to GBP 9,200 for the Ruby One. The PHONO-1 LX and Calon phono preamplifiers, dedicated motor drives and DC power supplies and the HB, Verum, Redline and Blackline cable families complete the system. The design approach follows one stated aim, removing parts rather than adding them.
Who owns it and where it's made
Vertere Limited is a privately held British company, with Touraj Moghaddam as founder and creative lead and Ashley Dyer, with the firm almost from the start, as director. Operations manager Urmila Waghajiani joined in 2012 after more than a decade as Moghaddam's assistant at Roksan. The business is based at Oliver Business Park in north-west London, where it handles design, sales and technical support.
The lineup in this catalog
Turntables, tonearms and cables. The DG X turntable costs GBP 3,650, the RG-1 GBP 30,000 and up, and tonearms start at GBP 2,695.
Who it's for
Vertere is built for a record system in which the whole analogue chain, from motor drive to cartridge and phono stage, comes from a single designer. The DG X with a Sabre cartridge is a common start, the MG-1 MK II and Super Groove tonearms are the next step, and the SG-1 and RG-1 with the Reference arm and Ruby One serve owners building a top-tier record player.
