Analog Gear News

Welcome to 2025, fellow analog lovers! We here at AP hope everyone had a safe, happy, healthy, and fun holiday season, replete with as much vinyl-spinning as your ears, turntables, and systems could handle!

To kick the new year off right, we’re going to look at a cool new piece of gear that caught our collective eye — namely, the Musical Fidelity M6xTT turntable. Musical Fidelity says the M6xTT follows “the same design principles as the M8xTT [. . .] and the design philosophies of the legendary M1 turntable in our M6 line,” and that’s all quite readily apparent in what we can see of this new table.

As many of you may know, the M1 table was created by Musical Fidelity founder Antony Michaelson and Heinz Lichtenegger, the Pro-Ject CEO/founder who was, back then, a Musical Fidelity distributor. Some of their core ideas for the M1 table design were to combine the inert mass of metal alloys with zero resonating acrylic, as well as have the motor effectively decoupled from the tonearm and platter with its dual chassis construction.

Here’s how Musical Fidelity does it with the new table. The motor for the belt-drive M6xTT resides on a special foam in the lower-level acrylic plinth to decouple it from the platter and the tonearm. The M6xTT is equipped with the same speed-control technology as can be found within the M8xTT table, and the electronic speed control enables switching between 33 and 45rpm.

The new table’s motor is powered by a precision DC-driven AC generator for what Musical Fidelity describes as the “utmost in precision of speed and stability.” This means the frequency and voltage for the motor are — again, in Musical Fidelity’s own parlance — “completely generated from scratch by our control electronics, and you are not handicapped by the quality of your mains power when it comes to achieving perfect playback speeds.” Furthermore, a one-piece belt manufactured without any gluing connects the motor and the TPE damped platter. The platter is made of aluminium, is 39mm thick, weighs 6.6kg, and boasts an inverted bearing with ceramic ball tip.

Four heavyweight TPE damped aluminium feet with magnetic support connect the table’s two acrylic plinths, with Teflon spacers in between. They can be height-adjusted by turning the riffled middle part of the feet to level the table.

The 9in Musical Fidelity tonearm is also the same design as is found with the M8xTT — that said, the M6xTT arm has a shorter tonearm tube, streamlined headshell design, and direct 5P DIN output. It incorporates the company’s ultra-low resonance design with a transparent acrylic bearing ring and conical aluminium tonearm tube. The arm is fully VTA and azimuth adjustable, and it comes with two counterweights that are TPE damped in order to “prevent resonances.”

Supplied accessories for the M6xTT include a heavyweight aluminium puck, leather turntable mat, and a semi-balanced phono interconnect cable with gold-plated connectors. A clear acrylic dustcover is available separately.

Other specs for the M6xTT table are as follows. Effective tonearm mass/length is given as 13g/230mm, overhang as 18mm, wow & flutter as ±0.08% for 33rpm and ±0.07% for 45rpm, speed drift as ±0.11% for both 33 and 45rpm, and signal-to-noise ratio as –75dB. The M6xTT’s dimensions are 480 x 210 x 370mm (w/h/d), and its weight is 19.1kg.

Finally, the SRP for the Musical Fidelity M6xTT turntable is $5,299 (U.S.) / £4,799 (UK).

For more about Musical Fidelity, go here.
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