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Wilson Benesch Greenwich
Wilson Benesch announced the Greenwich Turntable, a new model within its GMT analogue platform that establishes the entry point into the company's latest reference-level record playback architecture. Rather than representing a simplified derivative of existing designs, the Greenwich Turntable is conceived as the foundation of a modular analogue ecosystem in which structural, damping and isolation strategies evolve progressively through the GMT range while preserving a common motor platform. This approach allows owners to enter the architecture at the Greenwich level and move upward toward Prime Meridian and ultimately the flagship GMT One without replacing the core drive system.
The Greenwich inherits its engineering DNA directly from the GMT One turntable first shown at High End Munich in 2024, where Wilson Benesch introduced the Alpha-Omega platform as the basis for its next-generation analogue strategy. In the Greenwich, that same architecture is retained in full, with differences between models emerging primarily through structural execution and vibration-management systems rather than changes to the drive topology itself.
At the centre of the design is the company's patent-pending Omega Direct Drive motor, a 15-inch slot-less synchronous unit built around what Wilson Benesch describes as a circumjacent radial force architecture. Unlike conventional direct-drive implementations that rely on corrective feedback loops to stabilise rotational behaviour, the Omega system is intended to generate a perfectly uniform electromagnetic field between stator and rotor from the outset, eliminating the need for complex compensation strategies and ensuring inherently synchronous rotation.
A defining feature of the Omega motor is its ultra-low torque operating regime at a fundamental frequency of 4 Hz. According to Wilson Benesch, this places the motor's operating behaviour well below the threshold of audibility and outside the critical modulation region typically associated with wow and flutter artefacts. The result, in theory, is a drive system that avoids the micro-variations in rotational behaviour that can subtly influence perceived tonal stability and timing precision in analogue replay.
Equally significant is the motor's interaction with the bearing system. The Omega Direct Drive architecture is designed so that no lateral forces are transmitted into the bearing assembly, allowing it to operate under purely axial loading conditions. This represents a departure from traditional direct-drive layouts, where sideways loading can introduce additional friction, noise and micro-vibration. By eliminating these forces, Wilson Benesch aims to create what it describes as ideal operating conditions for a plain bearing in a high-performance turntable environment.
Control of the drive system is handled by the companion Alpha Drive, a quartz-referenced three-phase Class A motor controller responsible for delivering precisely regulated current to the synchronous motor. This subsystem forms the second half of the Alpha-Omega architecture and is intended to ensure long-term rotational stability without introducing switching artefacts or electrical noise typically associated with more conventional motor control solutions.
Within the GMT ecosystem, the Greenwich can be configured as part of a complete analogue playback chain incorporating the Graviton Ti tonearm, Tessellate Ti cartridge, R1 Carbon Rack and an optional VTA Control System. In this configuration, the turntable becomes the foundation of what Wilson Benesch describes as a fully integrated Greenwich System, extending the company's materials and structural engineering approach beyond the deck itself into the supporting mechanical environment.
The Greenwich therefore functions not simply as a standalone record player but as an entry point into a scalable analogue platform in which structural refinements, damping strategies and isolation technologies increase progressively across the range while the underlying Alpha-Omega drive architecture remains constant. The Wilson Benesch Greenwich Turntable will be available at a suggested retail price of £82,000 in the United Kingdom, €98,000 in Europe and $130,000 in the United States. Info and photos by Wilson Benesch.
