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 1 and Heed ORBIT 2 off-board turntable power supplies offer a sophisticated solution to stabilise and improve any 4-pole, 110V syncronous motor drive, elevating 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, and Kuzma to name just a few. That's more than a half-million turntables out there just begging for improvement!

The ORBIT 1 outputs @ 110v, so it requires only a small modification of the motor circuitry (the capacitor used to provide phase shift needs to be removed from the circuit - preferably carried out by your qualified dealer/technician), so is an ideal replacement for the old Linn Valhalla supply, or a replacement for any other dead or damaged internal power supply. For example, the Orbit 1 can be an ideal solution to replace the no longer available Linn Axis power supply board.

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.

Both the Orbit 1 & 2 offer 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!

Both models regulate your turntable's motor drive via an intricate quadrature-quartz speed generator, providing unsurpassed speed accuracy and pitch stability. Packed into their 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 ORBITs, 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.

Germany's leading high-end magazine, Image Hifi writes:

"For a measly 330 EUR hail the beer-budget nirvana! That is where the external power supply designed by Heed Audio catapults the Planar 3 to. Just like the Lingo with the Sondek, this Hungaro-Blackbox lifts the Rega into a higher league - although, and this is the subtle difference, it does it for 1/5 of the price of a Lingo... This external power supply will develop into a dangerously piquant option: audiophile Viagra for the Planar 3 and a challenge to all the higher-ranking Rega record decks at the same time."