The ORBIT 2 outputs @ 220v, and has been designed as a Plug N' Play upgrade (no modification necessary) for any deck equipped with a 4-pole, 110V synchronous motor, which still has it's internal mains power supply. It enables easy switching between 33.3 and 45 rpm (via the button on the front panel) it's compatible with a vast range of turntables e.g. Rega P2, P3, P25, Nottingham Analogue, VPi, Wilson Benesch to name but a few.

The speed accuracy and stability of many belt drive turntables driven by a synchronous motor depends entirely upon the quality/consistency of frequency delivered by the domestic mains supply. However, mains frequency at 50Hz leaves much to be desired since it is subject to fluctuation, distortion, and other innumerable problems prior to reaching your listening room.

The Heed ORBIT 2 off-board turntable power supply is a sophisticated solution to stabilise and improve any compatible turntable it will elevate your deck's sonic performance to startling new levels of musicality.

The ORBIT was, in its early incarnation a single-speed (33 1/3 RPM) device, originally designed to compliment the Linn Sondek LP12 as an affordable alternative to Linn's top-of-the-line LP12/Lingo combination. But as a bonus the ORBITs can be the ideal partner for the vast majority or Rega turntables (Planars 2&3, P2, P3, P25), their OEM derivatives as marketed by the likes of NAD and Goldring, and various models offered by Nottingham Analogue, Thorens, Manticore, VPI, Wilson Benesch and Kuzma to name just a few. That's more than a half-million turntables out there just begging for improvement!

Importantly the Orbit 2offer the ability to change the decks speed without having to move, platters belts etc. all you do is press the switch on the front - it's that easy!

The Orbit regulates your turntable's motor drive via an intricate quadrature-quartz speed generator, providing unsurpassed speed accuracy and pitch stability. Packed into the hefty shielded steel casework (protecting the units from electromagnetic interference and vibration) are two mains-filtering transformers, and a high-current amplification circuit to assure that the power passed onto your motor is silky-smooth and constant, with no fluctuation and virtually immesurable distortion.

All told, the resulting sonic performance is previously unknown in this price category. Backgrounds become "blacker", bass gains added depth, and the overall soundstage widens accordingly. In fact, until the introduction of the ORBIT, we might only have expected to achieve such levels of grip, authority, and musicality with high-end turntables costing several times as much as, say, a Rega P3.