Turntables, Arms & Cartridges

The Michell GyroDec was released in 1982, with a Perspex base, an aluminium subchassis, an AC motor and an aluminium platter with the famous gold-plated brass weights. It was suspended from springs in tension rather than compression, making it more stable and easier to set up than most other suspended-subchassis decks of the time.

Over the next 40 years it revolved and evolved – there was a brief flirtation with twin drive belts, the platter changed to acrylic, then carbon loaded acrylic, then Delrin. The most important change came in 1989, with Michell’s helically-cut bearing that continually circulated the oil as the platter revolved. PSU upgrades were developed in the 1990s in the form of the Gyropower, later followed by the Gyropower QC. The Gyro SE ‘Spider Edition’ arrived in 1999, around the same time that the Papst AC motor was replaced by a DC design. The new Gyro DC PSU is clearly inspired by the Michell Apollo phono preamp’s Muse PSU [HFN Aug ’25] with its screened, clamshell case design [see picture above].