New $35K pivoting tonearm

19.5 K for the Durand " TELOS" WOOD tonearm. This audio bargain of the century has a NEW updated arm wand . It is now made from a mystery blend of composites (plastics) NOT wood! Cost for this upgrade is only 6K!

A wood Arm is never wasted, you can still use it to light up your fireplace.

And apparently there is no trade in discount. Throw away the old, buy the new which has new wires and supposedly sounds much, much better. So $19.5K for the Telos + $6K for the composite wand, more $KK for the sapphire bearing. This is in the high $20Ks now and there are so many options/versions, I've lost track.

Are there different length composite arm wand upgrades available? Can you install the sapphire cartridge mounting plate on the composite wand, or does that degrade performance?

The mid tear Durand seems like a promising design which never had a wood arm tube option.

The optional 4.5K cost sapphire head shell spacer is NOT used on the new updated composite arm wand . Oops... on running out and buying one! Useless on the new arm wand. Throw it in the
goldfish tank next to the fancy glass marbles. Ouch!!!

The instruction manual with my new Transfiguration Proteus says that on some arms VTA and azimuth can be adjusted by remote. Did try my HT Denon remote....no way.
Is this the new genie out of the bottle ?

I recall that a very rare Air Tangent arm allowed for remotely controlled VTA. I never heard of azimuth being adjustable that way. Kuzma had an arm pillar with a digital readout that made it easy to adjust the arm up or down and get back to a prior adjustment (just remember the number), but, actual adjustment was not by remote control.