Frank Kuzma is releasing a new arm!

Looks like a winner to me. 

Effective mass is 60g.

Since you have eschewed high effective mass tonearms in all your previous posts, what has changed ? or did you miss that fact ?

I thought the 4 Point 9 was a better design than the SAT arms

Why do you think the 4point9 is a better design than the SAT.

You have always claimed that neutral balanced arms is one of your key criteria for selecting a tonearm, as well as low effective mass, and yet the 4point9 is negatively balanced.

Once again why has your thinking suddenly changed ?

@mijostyn

@dover, You have your tonearm geometry mixed up. 

The 4 Point is a neutral balance arm. It will stay in whatever position you put it in. VTF stays constant regardless of position.

Wrong.

Here’s Michael Fremer in hs review of the 4Point9.

Because the 4Point’s two vertical bearing points and the cups they pivot in are well below the arm and thus its mass, the arm’s center of gravity is above the vertical pivot point—the opposite of stable balance. This produces what’s called negative balance, in which the VTF decreases as the arm is raised from the record surface.

Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about.