New $35K pivoting tonearm

I thought the really unique aspects of this arm are the different horizontal and vertical effective lengths (offset bearings so inertia is different in horizontal and vertical directions) and the pivoting counter weight so that VTF and SRA aren't as effected by record warps. Those seem to be fairly unique features. I think there is also a light at the headshell to illuminate the LP for groove selection.

I did hear this arm a year or so ago at the NYC audio show in an unfamiliar system. There was no way to isolate the performance of the arm from the rest of the gear. The system sounded OK.

The price is outrageous.

The Axiom and Schroeder LT arms are more interesting, IMO. They are also expensive, but not 3X+ the competition.

And apparently there is no trade in discount. Throw away the old, buy the new which has new wires and supposedly sounds much, much better. So $19.5K for the Telos + $6K for the composite wand, more $KK for the sapphire bearing. This is in the high $20Ks now and there are so many options/versions, I've lost track.

Are there different length composite arm wand upgrades available? Can you install the sapphire cartridge mounting plate on the composite wand, or does that degrade performance?

The mid tear Durand seems like a promising design which never had a wood arm tube option.

Frank Schroder is using a composite arm for his new Linear Tracking arm. His old arms used to be wood also.

Will the Telea II model switch over to composite as well?

Unoear, are you referring to the DD platform that Jtinn is selling? I imagine the new arms were developed in part on that same platform, the Wave Kinetics table.

@Berlinta, Frank, thank you for correcting my error. I looked at photos of an LT arm in Texas and it did not appear to be wood. Neither did the headshell. I must be mistaken. My apologies. I appreciate your contribution to this forum.