2001 Signature
2001 SIGNATURE
THE 2001 PEDIGREE
Before considering any details of the 2001 the prospective purchaser should realize the benefit he will receive
from the fact that his 2001 was designed and manufactured by the same company that has designed and
produced the incredible Basis Work of Art turntable and the legendary Debut series, which has been in
production for 20 years. The 2001 platters and bearings are machined by the same precision machinists,
on the same tooling, as the similar parts of the Debut and Work of Art! The 2001 uses the same motor as the
Debut. The 2001 suspension is an adaptation of the Debut suspension. It would be impossible for the 2001 to
be produced at its price without the simultaneous production of Debut parts. As for the design pedigree, it is
undeniable: the same designer of the Work of Art and Debut designed the 2001.
2001 OVERVIEW
The 2001 Signature represents the refinement of the original 2001, which has been in production since 1996.
The 2001 was the first of the Basis 2000 series turntables and incorporates an innovative adaptation of the
Basis fluid damped suspension of the Debut model. By incorporating the suspension under the turntable
platform Basis has been able to reduce the size of the subchassis, gaining an advantageous “thickness-tolength ratio” for improved resonant behavior. We have named the suspension isolators “Resonance
Annihilators” as they indeed perform the function of converting vibrational energy, on each side of the
Annihilator, into heat energy. The close proximity of the tonearm to the adjacent isolator is a great advantage
of the 2001 over any other turntable design: tonearm energy, created as the stylus traces the record groove, is
effectively and immediately eliminated by this close isolator. The result is an immediate and direct sound, the
hallmark of the suspended 2000 series turntables.
The 2001 turntable is the result of the same “Basis Systems Approach” of product development as other
Basis products, where each individual subsystem contributing to the performance of the product is identified.
Specific goals for the performance of each subsystem are developed based on the function of that system.
Each system is designed, based on fundamental principles of physics, and then tested and optimized to
perform its function to the highest level. Only after each system has demonstrated superior performance at its
defined function is it approved for use in the final product. The result is a totally engineered product. When
looking at other products it can be obvious that the designer has “fallen in love” with a certain aspect of a
product. This may be a novel shape, a supposed isolator made of many layers of materials, or an unusual
material. Such shortsighted, incomplete designs are all too common in the record player field and result in
one-dimensional performance. With the Basis Systems Approach the buyer is assured of a complete
design, a truly refined final product that will withstand the test of time by performing at a state of the art level
for decades.
THE ISOLATION SYSTEM
Isolating the turntable from the listening environment is crucial for you to really hear the music on your record.
Any less than total isolation reduces your turntable to an expensive tone control, with the sound becoming
colored by feedback and by ineffective handling of energy fed into the turntable by the tonearm.
The compact, self-contained Resonance Annihilator assemblies of the 2001 house the ultimate turntable
suspension system. This system totally isolates the turntable from vibration in the listening environment. It
also damps the subchassis by turning vibrational energy, which has been fed into the subchassis by the
tonearm, into heat energy. No other integral turntable suspension in the world performs the first function as
effectively, and no other turntable suspension performs the second function at all.
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