New $35K pivoting tonearm


Vertere Audio is Touraj Moghaddam cofounder of Roksan.

It has some interesting features including aligning the pivots to the offset angle rather than the arm tube, and bearings that don't rotate, made out of polymer-metal laminate film. Has 240mm effective length.
www.vertereacoustics.com/news

Click on the PDF link near the top.

This came up on Audio Circle and somebody said it sounds good. I certainly hope so. Anybody else?
Regards,
fleib
Rereading the description it seems the headshell and armtube are made separately then welded together.

It says, horizontal and vertical bearings are offset by 23mm so the effective length is different in the 2 planes and correctly optimized. I don't see how this is any different from other arms with offset bearings.

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$35,000.00 tone arm, at lease for this money you have something to play with.
I think the wire industry tops it all even surpassing the cryogenic treated cable elevators .
There are many examples and right now on sale here on Audiogon,
a 6 foot Elrod ac cord for $15,000.00 marked down because it is used ,yours only $8,000.00,....
The envelope is always pushed only when there are customers that are willing to buy into it , I think this speaks volumes and I need to come out with a new line of wire,....
are the additional conductors in the wire feed for led lights on/in the tonearm? or am i imagining this?
In a way he is the first one who offers a normal Arm in that new price range. Personally I will wait until I can listen to one. I agree, when JV will get one as a long term "reference" we will read that a new sonic wonder hit our Planet. But, to be fair, none of you showed identical "emotion" when pieces of wood became available for 8k (Schroeder) or later the piece of wood from Durand (double).
Where is the beef? Designed by knife or expensive material which really has some energy transfer? Each his own but I think, a good executed Arm for 35k can serve more sonic pleasure than a material which changes its parameters when your wife opens the window. And, take care of

Audiophile rule No. 1: No Panic

Any manufacturer who wants to be taken serious, needs a high ticket device. Downgrade from top is more simple than to move up from the bottom. It is a Roksan Arm in new clothes...and a new name.