New 12" Tonearm UK Manufacture

[Lee Henley]

I recently spotted this arm at the UK Leamington HiFi show manufactured by a UK company, its a static balance arm and is 12" in length. At the show he was using an SPU supplied by Shuggie. I had a good luck at the arm and it appeared to be well manufactured and is priced very competitively especially as they are all hand made in his workshop.

Im not affiliated with the guy who runs the company but feel that the arm should be brought to the attention of forum members. When I am looking for a new arm myself I will most likely be ordering one of them and I was wondering if any members on here had heard one in their systems?

Here is the link to his web site

https://www.acoustand.co.uk/collecti...rm-new-product





Hopefully the guy will be taking some orders as its worth encouraging UK manufacture.

[Ammonite Audio]

Totally agree - this thing reeks of quality and is very well priced. The quality is even more amazing when you know that all the parts are machined by hand, the old-fashioned way, rather than by CNC.

[Bigman80]

This fella makes a stunning SP10 plinth from Delrin and Aluminium. I've been lusting after one for a while.

Good coms from him and he answered questions quickly.

Looks interesting.

[YNWaN]

I’ve chatted to the man who makes this arm. As above, it looks very nicely made and has some interesting design features - it deserves to do well.

At £995.00 (including headshell) it’s very good value!

[Barry]

Considering the arm is hand crafted to a very high standard of fit and finish, the asking price is more than reasonable.

Whilst the bias arrangement is correct (with the side force decreasing as the arm moves towards the centre of the record), the vertical bearings are such that the stylus does not move in a true vertical plane as it rides a record warp. A minor quibble - even SME took decades to sort that one out.

I like the way the overhang is adjusted in the headshell. I assume the headshell fitting is the standard EIA bayonet type.

Good to see a new British arm manufacturer - I wish him all success.

[Ammonite Audio]

I did point out the vertical bearing alignment to Lee at the Woodland Grange Audio Show

[joolz]

Nice looking bit of kit, almost seems a shame that i don't need one....

[Lee Henley]

I did point out the vertical bearing alignment to Lee at the Woodland Grange Audio Show

Yes you did mate, how much of an effect will it have on play back?

[Ammonite Audio]

Yes you did mate, how much of an effect will it have on play back?

In truth, very little indeed in terms of replay quality since there are many and much more significant factors in designing and making a good tonearm, but it's good practice to align bearing and offset angles to eliminate azimuth changes with armtube level.

[Tea24]

Anyone tried the headshell alone on, say, a Jelco tonearm?