There is vinyl playback, and then there is TechDAS. These are different things.

Created by Hideaki Nishikawa — the legendary Japanese engineer behind many of the most important and influential turntable designs in audio history — TechDAS Air Force turntables are reference-grade precision instruments. They extract every last detail from the vinyl groove with a level of accuracy, stability, and musical authority that is simply not achievable any other way.

The technology at the heart of every TechDAS is genuinely unlike anything else. An air bearing platter system that literally floats the record on a precisely controlled cushion of pressurized air. Vacuum hold-down technology that ensures perfect, unwavering contact between the record surface and the platter at all times. The result is a level of rotational stability, speed accuracy, and background silence that conventional mechanical turntable designs simply cannot achieve. Music emerges from an absolute, inky blackness. What you hear isn’t colored by the machine. It’s the record, and nothing else.

The Air Force range spans from the Air Force V — a more accessible entry point into this extraordinary technology — through the Air Force III Premium and up to the ultimate statement Air Force Zero, widely regarded by critics and enthusiasts alike as one of the finest turntables ever built at any price. Each model delivers incredible detail resolution, deep and perfectly controlled bass, and a three-dimensional soundstage that places you convincingly inside the recording venue with startling, almost holographic realism.

Vinyl playback is part of our DNA at Definitive. For listeners who want the absolute best analog experience available anywhere, TechDAS delivers in a way nothing else can. Our team has the expertise to properly set up and meticulously calibrate these precision instruments.

TechDAS is produced in limited quantities. If you’re curious about what the ultimate in vinyl reproduction sounds like, we’d love to arrange a private demonstration.