The city of Sheffield in the north of England was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution. As I get off at the city’s train station, there are reminders everywhere of the heavy industry that was once based there. It seems fitting that this is home to an engineering-focused company such as Wilson Benesch.
The brand was founded in 1989 and its first products were a high-end turntable called, quite simply, The Wilson Benesch Turntable, and the A.C.T. One tonearm. The initials A.C.T. stand for Advanced Composite Technology, and indicate the pioneering use of carbon fibre in the turntable’s sub-chassis and the arm’s tapered arm tube.
