Behind the scenes
It’s no secret that the majority of my customers find themselves with either Kuzma or Schröder tonearms. Both designers pay meticulous attention to resonance control and energy transfer, and the result is that their designs excel at rendering subtle and dramatic dynamic shadings with a startling sense of realism. Over the years, I’ve fielded questions …
We’ve been on a bit of a roll with tonearms as of late – first, with the Hybrid Kuzma (click here), and now with the Jelco SA-250. I’ve always considered the Jelco to have untapped potential. While it’s no longer in production, the fact that we still have inventory gave us reason to explore this. …
In our previous update (click here), we documented one of the smallest and most critical parts in a turntable. Today, we bring you a revised conceptual drawing as we draw nearer to the finish line.
In part-1, we documented our 4Point Hybrid project from its initial conception, through prototyping and preliminary evaluation. Since we’ve been using the 9″ arm wand for the past year, we wanted to spend some time re-familiarizing ourselves with the mass of the 11″ arm wand before comparing it against the standard 4Point with it’s VTA …
This hybrid tonearm concept has been spinning around in our heads for some two and a half years. One thing after another kept it on the back burner until March of 2020, when we spoke with Franc Kuzma about it. … and then COVID struck. Brew a fresh cup and sit down for a story …
The first post in this series (For Want of a Nail) was inspired by lessons learned – both in the manufacturing as well as final assembly of our 2019 drive system update. So, we’re back on the trail, finalizing the design of our Savoie (idler drive – formerly named the Eiger), and it’s no surprise …
I was viewing an instructional video on developing guitar soloing techniques, and was struck by the parallels to audio design. In both pursuits, there’s a danger of trying to impress instead of focusing on fundamentals.
We sold a customer some late stage prototype, Wind River speaker cables. He loved them, and asked us about our design approach and how we arrived at our current production cables. So here you go … 15 months’ development summarized in a few paragraphs.
The Mk II turntable series represented a shift from pivoting (rotating) armboards to sliding armboards. After the production launch, we looked into the possibility of this sliding armboard architecture trickling down to our Mark I series turntables The result was the Mk 1.5 conversion. The only downside to this conversion is the sacrifice of dual …
With the release of our Spring, 2019 drive system update, it seemed like a good time to trace the evolution of our motor drives. We’ve included some details for the technically inclined, and we’ve tried to give you some insight into both our developent process and what we were trying to acccomplish. The sonic attributes …
