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New $35K pivoting tonearm

Vertere Audio is Touraj Moghaddam cofounder of Roksan.

It has some interesting features including aligning the pivots to the offset angle rather than the arm tube, and bearings that don't rotate, made out of polymer-metal laminate film. Has 240mm effective length.
www.vertereacoustics.com/news

Click on the PDF link near the top.

This came up on Audio Circle and somebody said it sounds good. I certainly hope so. Anybody else?
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fleib
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sunnyboy1956
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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 ?
larryi
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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.
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I suspect 'twas a poor Japanese translation ...:-)
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mapman
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Gotta hear that!

It better not be worth the money or I will leave depressed.
dover
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Turns out that Telos after many years of research have finally cottoned on that wood is not ideal for a tonearm, and is indeed in this instance a wooden spoon, or kindling as Syntax would say.

I must have had great foresight about a year ago when I was criticised for describing on the Telos as a "wooden spoon" on the Wave Kinetics thread.
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