The overall ‘wow and flutter’ (speed error) of your entire audio system cannot be significantly reduced unless the eccentricity of your vinyl records is corrected, says DS Audio. The company’s ES-001 is designed to address the problem by measuring, and then correcting, a record’s rotational stability.

The speed-stability performance of a vinyl record depends on a number of parameters in the pressing of the vinyl. While the record’s groove and the spindle hole at the centre of the record are both are very precisely stamped and cut, neither can ever be ultra precise in the way that, say, a hard metal can be precision-machined – simply because in this case, we’re dealing with a lump of vinyl. The upshot is that most records rotate very slightly eccentrically, but even this very slight variation makes an audible difference to the sound – a difference you may only notice once you hear its absence.

Michael Fremer puts this to the test for US hi-fi magazine The Absolute Sound in the video below.

Find out more about the ES 001 at ds-audio-w.biz and, to auditon one for yourself, locate your nearest dealer via UK distributor www.soundfowndations.co.uk