VPI 3D tonearm

Halcro and Don, you are right on target. 3-D printing captures the imagination of non-technical folks, confusing a new process that has no practical advantages for production items with the false concept that the final product made from the process might be better.

In marketing, buzz is always more important than reality, and in high-end audio it has gotten worse and worse.

Stringreen
One more point ....the upgraded JMW arms are wired with Nordost wire....I was told that the 3D arm is wired with a very new Discovery cable which is very much better than the Valhalla.

Isn't/wasn't Valhalla Nordost's top of the line wire retailing for thousands of dollars as a speaker or interconnecting cable? How "very much better" can this Discovery cable be? This is getting ridiculous.

So it seems that the consensus is that the 3D arm is junk without anyone here having auditioned the new VPI product.

Actureus....you are correct....Valhalla WAS top of the line wiring for VPI arms..however the new Discovery wire that is used in the 3D arm is better...especially in the mids (is what Harry tells me..I'll report on it when I get my arm wired with the new Discovery) VPI will wire any of his arms with any wire you wish.

Stringreen,

I didn't say Valhalla was the top of line wiring for VPI arms; I said it was Nordost's top of the line wire that retails/retailed for an exorbitant amount of money (for most people), and has been generally considered one of the very best wires the money could buy. So I find your (or VPI's) statement that the Discovery wire, now apparently used for the new VPI tonearm, is "very much better" than the Valhalla wire absurd. Do you and VPI propose to tell me there has been some sort of a ground-breaking break-through and advance in tonearm wires in the past year that rendered all top wires thus far on the market inferior and obsolete? Or is a more plausible explanation that that it is all marketing bs meant to sell more product? I myself have owned several VPI products, including my current Classic turntable which I love it, but this is getting really annoying.