unique tonearm Brooklyn Bridge


A few years ago, an audio shop in Northern New Jersey was selling a tonearm that looked like a strucural bridge element, anybody know who made them and perhaps where to buy one?
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Showing 3 responses by lewm

Thanks. That is a way cool tonearm, and from what one can see of it, it is beautifully engineered with respect to the "problems" inherent to a pivoted tonearm. I'd love to see more detailed photos from more angles.
Jaspert, Thanks for the URLs, but both of them lead me to blank pages with no photos.

Travis, Possibly because I was not able to view the photos, I do not understand your reference to the L07J (what the cognoscenti know to be the model designation of the L07D tonearm). As for me, I would not say that I am a "fan". There are some things about it that do not fulfill modern ideas of tonearm perfection. But the proof is in the pudding, and it does produce good music with both my Koetsu and my Stanton 980LZS. I look forward to running the wires straight from the cartridge thru to my preamp. That should be "awesome". I suspect the arm tube and headshell are very very well damped; resonant colorations are very very low.
I have a hunch that the colorations the L07J may impart are due to the multitude of physical contacts in the signal path and possibly to their choice of Litz wire in the headshell, the tonearm body, and in the IC, plus the "sound" of that DIN plug with its huge contact pins. I will be able to say that more definitively after I bypass the whole shebang. Anyway, I like the net product of the L07D and its tonearm a whole bunch, as I have already stated ad nauseam. If you have not inserted an EMI/RFI shield between the base platter and the platter sheet, you may be missing something. I did it with a piece of TI Shield from M Percy. Makes a difference.

Sorry for the OT comment.