New $35K pivoting tonearm

G m c, you're not imagining it, vaseline and colonoscopy lights included!

In a way he is the first one who offers a normal Arm in that new price range. Personally I will wait until I can listen to one. I agree, when JV will get one as a long term "reference" we will read that a new sonic wonder hit our Planet. But, to be fair, none of you showed identical "emotion" when pieces of wood became available for 8k (Schroeder) or later the piece of wood from Durand (double).
Where is the beef? Designed by knife or expensive material which really has some energy transfer? Each his own but I think, a good executed Arm for 35k can serve more sonic pleasure than a material which changes its parameters when your wife opens the window. And, take care of

Audiophile rule No. 1: No Panic

Any manufacturer who wants to be taken serious, needs a high ticket device. Downgrade from top is more simple than to move up from the bottom. It is a Roksan Arm in new clothes...and a new name.

Syntax, You're right and I feel the same looking at a chopstick with a hinge for
thousands of dollars. Lets not forget the same reviewers raving about the
ultimate toilet flush design, the Well Tempered arm...

you have to be kidding for that kind of money.

Syntax, I like your sense of humor, but I must disagree with you on the subject of wood tonearms. I own a few that I like very much, and even in theory there are some properties of some hardwoods that seem well suited to the job. I don't own a Durand, but I would like to (Talea, not Telos). Also, although your remark did make me laugh, I strongly doubt that any well done wood tonearm will be affected when your wife opens the window, unless perhaps you are experiencing a typhoon. Why is a metal rod (choose your metal) more sophisticated, or even "better", necessarily? Both types can sound very good. If the early Schroeder tonearms have a flaw (and I don't know that they do) it is more likely related to the string bearing than to the wood composition, IMO. I've got an old but virtually NOS Grace wood tonearm that I have been thinking of modifying by adding side weights at the pivot; it has the potential of any modern expensive wood tonearm, if you like unipivots and if you don't hate wood.
Dkarmeli, I have long tried to hold my tongue when it comes to the WT tonearms, because there are so many devotee's on the internet, but I do agree with your assessment of them. I just don't get the enthusiasm, at all.