Graham Phantom Armwand

I have both the ceramic and titanium armwands. Having a hum issue with the ceramic, I tryed the titanium with my Allaerts Finish VLOMC and it is totaly silent, more refined and precise. The older ceramic is also heavier 3,5 grams wich adds effective mass to the tonearm . Azimuth is more parallel with Titanium. The armtube is thinner and looks more delicate, but rigidity it increased wich is a good sonic improvement. So I advise the use of this new titanium armwand for very low output cartridges, the Phantom will make them shine like aurora borealises !

Jloveys

How can you tell the difference between the Ceramic & Titanium?? especially what you only have the one.

Reason for my question is that Bob said he was making the series 2 for as little while before he officially changed to series 2.
Based on my serial number he thought mine was series 2, but I would like to know either way.

cheers

I bought both armwands in march not knowing there was a new model, so I didn't realise until recently when i had a failure with one of them that they where different. So I asked Bob and he answered me that the thinner (6mm diameter) is the new titanium. The older ceramic is 8 mm diameter.

Jloveys said, "Azimuth is more parallel with Titanium."

I don't see why you would think the arm wand material would make a difference with azimuth. The material would have nothing at all to do with proper azimuth. I'm sure the titanium wand is more susceptable to ringing than ceramic so it may not be as neutral as non-ringing ceramic, if that makes sense. In the end it does come down to which flavor you prefer which was already mentioned earlier in the thread.

Sorry, I was not clear, by azymuth I want to say that the headshell platform is parallel to bearing platform making magneglide markings in front of each other when azymuth is right. With the ceramic the marks are way out and main bearing is not straight.