Air Force one premium

Two models available:
Air Force One Premium with A7075 Super Duralumin Upper Platter
Air Force One Premium with Titanium Upper Platter

Air Force has three design concepts: Air bearing / Disc suction / Air suspension.

It is important for a turntable to achieve accurate and noise free stable rotation, which requires a platter with significant mass. Without air bearing, over time this heavy-weight platter can cause deterioration in the bearings surfaces and cause friction vibrations or degradation of rotation accuracies.

The Premium is also equipped with an exclusive motor pump for air charging. It automatically stops air filling when the appropriate amount of air has been charged, omitting troublesome labor for the user.

The air condenser serves an important function and achieves consistent air bearing for the platter and vacuum hold-down of an LP. While the air condenser for the original Air Force One was more than adequate, TechDAS has discovered that increasing the capacity will produce a more dynamic sound. which has elevated the sound to new heights in every respect including background blackness and dynamics.

Through a calibrated microcomputer adjustment circuit combined with a heavyweight platter, the turntable achieves a very high rotation accuracy beyond the boundaries of conventional belt-driven products and equivalent to that of a direct drive (DD) motor.

The Air Force One Premium analog turntable by TechDAS ushers in exquisite design concept to positively exploit the aerodynamic force equivalent to sound energy rather than springs or buffer materials. It is the ultimate mechanism based on a vibration damping design using “Air Force” and utilizes only high-precision finished parts with enough mass to completely avoid any “colour” to the sound, nothing is added or removed. Through the aerodynamic instrumentality of “Air Force” the real magnitude and essence of ultimate analog playback is now a reality. Adverse effects caused by various obstructive oscillations, which used to be arch-nemesis of analog turntables has been thoroughly wiped out by the Air Force.

Hideaki Nishikawa

Air Condenser / Air Charger Unit on the middle level.

Power Supply / Pump Unit on the bottom level.