Analog Instruments Ltd is proud to introduce the Elementum 12” tonearm. ****Orders open now. First five target for shipping at the end of February. The Elementum [Lat] ‘Natural Element’ is a unique tonearm that has been designed and tested with several important objectives in mind. The arm must sound free from artificial or mechanical strain, ie it must have a natural tone and fully communicate the mood expressed by the artist. The arm should do this in a way that keeps you excited and encourages you to explore your valuable vinyl collection. The Elementum has a powerful and exciting presentation that will keep you fully engaged and non fatigued during long sessions. This has been achieved by many hours of listening to the 20+ prototype arm variations until the required results were found. These listening sessions included group listens by my audio friends who I encouraged to be very frank and honest! The Elementum features a composite arm wand of Titanium, Cocobolo, Brass and Aluminium which is rigidly mounted to the Brass bearing housing and gimbal assembly. Only the highest quality bearings are used (sourced from overseas) which are conditioned individually prior to ‘setting’ in the bearing housing. Both the horizontal and vertical bearings have a unique subtle pre-load mechanism to lightly take up any gap between the roller bearings and their associated race. This system keeps the bearing pre-loaded throughout its entire life resulting in rigidity against the natural forces feedback by the fierce interaction between the stylus and the vinyl groove. Many features discovered during the R&D of my Apparition and Siggwan tonearms have also been utilised thus resulting in an arm that I am truly proud of. One other important feature of the Elementum is it MUST look good on vintage super decks of the past and exhibit a certain ‘look’ that will honour the greatness of those decks. NZ$2350 (approximately US$1830) Elementum tonearm Features: - Hand made 12” Composite arm wand of Titanium, Cocobolo (indian ink and bees wax finish), Brass, Aluminium. - SME detachable collet. - Offset angle and geometry to suit most headshells and Ortofon SPU G (52mm from stylus to Hard mount). - Offset angle set for Baerward allowing more generic usage and listening genre. - Gimballed bearings offset to match headshell arm interface reducing distortion during vertical warps. - Brass hardware including separate counterweights. - Expander stub weights to increase the range of usable cartridges. - Continuous run of Cardas 33 tonearm cable. - Tellurium Copper RCA plugs. - Useable Plinth to platter height from 28mm to 45mm. (I can accommodate higher if needed but if lower, you will need to recess the base mount into the arm board or plinth). - All adjustments for VTA, Azimuth, VTF (ease set screw positions), Arm rest, Lifter. - Advanced Adjustment: Poorly machined headshell’s can have their faulty VTA compensated for by using the arm wand mount screw and SME collet mount screw. - Heavy duty SME collet/arm wand interface thus doing away with the flimsy SME lock screw. *Note the headshell shown are not included. I can supply a headshell but in most cases it would be cheaper for you to purchase your own because I have to pay duty when importing them which would need to be passed on. I can recommend good headshell at any budgets. *Note that unlike the Siggwan, a 20-22mm hole will need to be bored to clear the bearing column. I did this with a blade drill and cordless drill. A very easy task which took 5 mins from calculating the hole position. Please feel free to discuss the Elementum tonearm if you have any questions: [email protected]
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 05:10:06 +0000