New $35K pivoting tonearm

Ditto to what Doug wrote, especially on the first point about aligning the bearings. When I read the OP's description, the first thing I thought of was the built on tonearm on my Dual 1019 record changer, and then I thought of every tonearm I've ever owned, except the unipivots, which do not require such bearing geometry at all.

I generally do not go along with ridiculing audio gear based solely on retail pricing, but this one does take a sort of cake, when it comes to that.

Ill be jumping on one soon Ho Ho!!

Well, I didn't say any of the features are unique. They seem to be the highlights of the PDF. The bearing material might be unique and the claim is, it's the only arm with completely silent bearings, although even if true I'm not sure how relevant that is. Friction spec is not provided.

The armtube/headshell is machined out of one piece of titanium, but so is my old Alphason 100S. I was hoping someone who heard the arm would comment.
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01-27-14: Fleib
Well, I didn't say any of the features are unique.

Well the $35K list price is rather unique, for a tonearm anyway. ;)

I thought the really unique aspects of this arm are the different horizontal and vertical effective lengths (offset bearings so inertia is different in horizontal and vertical directions) and the pivoting counter weight so that VTF and SRA aren't as effected by record warps. Those seem to be fairly unique features. I think there is also a light at the headshell to illuminate the LP for groove selection.

I did hear this arm a year or so ago at the NYC audio show in an unfamiliar system. There was no way to isolate the performance of the arm from the rest of the gear. The system sounded OK.

The price is outrageous.

The Axiom and Schroeder LT arms are more interesting, IMO. They are also expensive, but not 3X+ the competition.