Soulines kubrick DCX
With rock-solid pitch, muscular bass and an open, naturally focused soundstage, the kubrick DCX makes vinyl feel both urgent and unforced. HiFi News heard exceptional neutrality alongside real energy, while Hifi Pig praised its addictive rhythmic drive. Its sculptural, damped aluminium architecture and interchangeable armboards complete a seriously refined analogue platform.
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Sound Quality
93/100
Build Quality
92/100
Features Usability
88/100
Value for Money
87/100
Pros
Neutral, lively presentation with solid, detailed bass, clear treble and convincing instrument placement.
Excellent pitch stability and rhythmic authority, with constant 45rpm performance and no audible guitar-pitch wavering.
Strong engineering and usability: reviewers praised the sculptural build, straightforward setup and useful armboard flexibility.
Cons
With the reviewed Timestep T-609 arm, densely layered bass passages were slightly less clear and separated than through a rival SME 309 arm.
It is a premium-priced proposition rather than a budget-led turntable.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 93/100
Reviews describe a notably neutral yet lively presentation, combining forceful, controlled bass with clarity, openness and convincing spatial focus. The deck is praised for strong rhythmic drive, steady pitch and a very quiet mechanical background, while the reviewed Timestep arm pairing tracks confidently across a wide range of cartridges.
Overall Sound
94/100
HiFi News found the Kubrick DCX/Timestep combination exceptionally neutral for its price, but also energetic and exuberant rather than safe or dull. Bass is described as big, solid, detailed and punchy, while the midrange and treble bring clear, open, naturally placed instruments; Hifi Pig likewise praised its addictive rhythmic drive and low apparent coloration.
Speed Stability
93/100
Hifi Pig heard bass performance comparable with a modified Technics SL-1210 and took this as evidence of rock-solid pitch stability. Guitar notes remained free of wavering pitch, and 45rpm playback was reported as spot-on and constant.
Tonearm Performance
92/100
In the reviewed configuration, the Timestep T-609 arm was said to be largely beyond reproach and compatible with a wide range of cartridges. HiFi News particularly liked its clarity and openness, and found it especially effective with low-compliance moving-coil cartridges.
Noise Isolation
91/100
Hifi Pig reported no audible motor noise reaching the stylus when the record was stationary. The rigid, damped plinth and adjustable-foot arrangement are designed to support stable, isolated operation, although the reviews provide limited direct discussion of footfall or acoustic-feedback resistance.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
92/100
Reviewers describe the Kubrick DCX as well engineered, visually sculptural and made to a very high standard. Its rigid aluminium plinth and sub-plinth use differently shaped, coupled and strategically damped sections, supported by three adjustable feet; Hifi Pig also singled out the workmanship for praise.
Features Usability
88/100
Electronic 33⅓ and 45rpm operation with fine adjustment makes day-to-day speed selection straightforward. The supplied record clamp, dust cover and alignment protractor are useful ownership additions, while two exchangeable armboards provide welcome flexibility for compatible 9-inch SME, Rega, Origin Live and Audio Note arms.
Value for Money
87/100
At €4,000 including the arm, Hifi Pig considered the Kubrick DCX costly but not extortionate for the product offered. HiFi News called it well engineered and said it sounded very fine indeed, supporting the sense of a justified premium rather than a bargain-led proposition; neither review offers detailed comparisons with direct rivals.
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Specifications
- Drive
- electronically controlled high quality DC motor
- Speeds
- 33.33 and 45.00 RPM with fine speed adjustment feature
- Bearing
- advanced inverted bearing, CNC machined from solid stainless steel with brass sleeve insert and Derlin thrust pad; polished stainless steel shaft holds captive hardened steel ball bearing
- Platter
- 40mm thick 3.4kg weighing, machined from cast Acrylic
- Construction
- multi layered aluminum main plinth with the 3-point coupled aluminum sub-plinth
- Finish
- sand-blasted and powder-coated in silver aluminum color
- Extras
- 2 user exchangeable arm-boards for 9" SME and Rega/Origin Live/Audio Note tone-arms; SA cover - Acrylic made dust cover; tt Clamp - the record clamp; Protractor LP - a cartridge alignment tool
- Power
- AC 230V/50Hz; DC input 12V/300mA
- Dimensions
- 470x350x160mm (WxDxH) overall; 400x350mm (WxD) footprint
- Net weight
- 16kg
- Packaging
- 510x410x310mm (WxDxH)
- Shipping weight
- 18kg
Manufacturer's Description — Soulines
"A few minutes later he caught his first glimpse of Space Station One, only a few miles away. The sunlight glinted and sparkled from the polished metal surfaces of the slowly revolving, threehundred-yard-diameter disk.... The central axis of the Space Station, with its docking arms extended, was now slowly swimming toward them. Unlike the structure from which it sprang, it was not rotating - or, rather, it was running in reverse at a rate which exactly countered the Station's own spin. Thus a visiting spacecraft could be coupled to it, for the transfer of personnel or cargo, without being whirled disastrously around." Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey A 33.33rpm revolving, three hundred-millimeters-diameter disk, with its drive block and three docking arms-cone supports extending from the underneath. Tone-arm firmly mounted on its own curved extension, steadily track the grooves, transmitting the music and transferring emotions ........Enter the Kubrick DCX turntable
Inspired by the S. Kubrick classic "2001: A Space Odyssey", the Kubrick DCX turntable is conceived as smooth looking musical "space" object.
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This is our most advanced turntable to date. Building around our inverted main bearing and Acrylic platter, developed for the Hermes DCX model, we designed a highly rigid aluminum plinth and sub-plinth, built from differently shaped layers-blocks, coupled together and strategically damped.
Design (dimensions, shape and arrangement of different openings/holes) of plinth and sub-plinth aluminum blocks employs Golden Ratio and Fibonacci sequence, thus gaining uniform vibration damping and the reduction of the Moment of inertia in all three planes (along all three axes) to the Center of mass.
Even though Kubrick DCX looks asymmetrical or unbalanced, it is in perfect balance, providing smooth platter rotation and steady tracking.
Drive mechanism utilizes high quality DC motor optimized for turntable use. Along with an easy operation and fine speed adjustment feature, an electronically controlled power supply provides stable current for smooth motor rotation.
Inverted main bearing, machined from solid brass and stainless steel to extremely high precision, and solid aluminum arm-board are mounted directly on the sub plinth which is in turn 3-point coupled to the main plinth in order to maximize performance and minimize acoustic break through. The motor assembly is mounted on the main plinth.
The platter, 40mm thick and weighing 3.4kg, is machined from cast Acrylic to very high accuracy with the 1.0mm deep recess carved into the top plane of the platter in the middle (for the record paper label).
The turntable is supported by three adjustable cones machined from stainless steel to allow leveling and provide optimum coupling to the surface that it sits on. Supporting cones are coupled to the main plinth by means of rubber-cork washers of different diameters, providing better vibration transmitting control.
The Kubrick DCX turntable is supplied with:
- two different (user) exchangeable aluminum made arm-boards for 9" tone-arms: - SME arm-board - tone-arm pivot to spindle distance from 206-240mm - Rega/Origin Live arm-board - tone-arm pivot to spindle distance 222mm
- Acrylic (Perspex) dust cover, the SA cover
- the record clamp, the tt Clamp
- cartridge protractor alignment tool precisely printed on 300gr paper including Baerwald, Loefgren and Stevenson protractors
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