Nottingham Spacedeck - The Absolute Sound

In my system, this set-up is dynamically nimble, rhythmically engaging and harmonically coherent. Unlike a performer with a good voice or instrumental skill, the Nottingham is like a performer with a good voice or instrumental skill hell-bent on getting the deeper meaning of the music across. Upon coming home each day, I eagerly rolled a record on the Nottingham. For me, that’s what this hobby is about. Yes, this combo is a bit more expensive, but when I consider the Space combo’s ability to get me in touch with the nuance and flow of music, the bang-for-buck factor makes it a bargain.

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Nottingham Spacedeck - Listener Magazine

The first thing that struck me about the sound of the Spacedeck and the Spacearm was its utter solidity. I’ve been struggling to describe exactly what that solidity sounds like, but it’s something that real music has and, I now think, one of the things about reproduced music that allows us to instantly recognize it as an imitation. It’s a combination of explosive dynamic attack, high extraction of detail, taut bass, a very low noise floor, sharply defined images, and some other stuff I haven’t figured out yet. I’m content to say that from the deepest bass that Epos ES12s could manage to the highest shimmering treble my 42-year-old ears could hear, everything played on the Spacedeck/Spacearm had a focus and authority that I’ve never heard from my system before.

Don’t misunderstand. This is not an imaging-over music component. The Spacedeck’s resolution and focus make subtle details of performance and expression more apparent… The Spacedeck and Spacearm combination is the first turntable I’ve heard in my system that was fully satisfying, and where I wasn’t always aware, even if only on some subliminal level, that there was something not quite right about the sound.
 

Nottingham Spacedeck - Hi-Fi Choice

How does it sound? It sounds like music. If you are dead serious about this turntable stuff, the "Best Buy" Spacedeck is one of the first real ports of call… Most impressive of all is the sheer lack of artifice in the sound of this design – it plays LPs so honestly, it’s enough to make you want to sign you name in blow-torch on your CD collection.