New 55,000 Euro tonearm

I must be living on another planet. 

I am on a third one..

Could we not get together at one and the same one.👍

@lewm The engineer knows all the places where his Tonearm work is discussed.

If they choose not to join a place and contribute, then that is fine on my end.

I have made it known what equipment I use in a variety of threads so I am not secretive.

It is quite obvious as well that I don't promote products and will always encourage a demonstration is experienced before an assessment is given on any device of interest.

If an interested individual is in the UK, or in Mainland Europe, and was to be receiving a demonstration, I am sure something can be arranged to make a demonstration happen, as there are quite a few users of these Tonearms across the UK and in Mainland Europe.

I will not be parting with any unique design information about any of the Bespoke Built Devices that I own. I have been quite amused when at a public event, by the odd individual asking quite a few questions, and then being seen trying to capture images of the Internal of an amp through a Vent, and then even being more cheeky, later in the event asking if the Amps Base Plate could be removed to let them see inside.

I would not entertain such a request, I am too polite to tell such a type to 'be on their way' any attempt by myself to support such an individual, would be a betrayal of trust to the designer / builder. 

In my mind when one buys into Bespoke, they inherit a responsibility to protect the knowledge used on the design from the designer / builder.

I believe that my vigilant maintenance of this position, is the one that has allowed me to maintain friendships with designers of my equipment for more than 30 years and allow the new relationships to develop that have become available throughout this period.

I certainly won't be jeopardising these relationships, as a result of a voiced dissatisfaction with a content of offered information on a forum.

My 50 years in this hobby tell me there’s nothing really new under the sun. I understand that you may feel obligated not to reveal your sources, but you must also realize that your policy in that regard reduces the usefulness  of your comments to others who might want to learn from your experience.

in my post at 9:47 today “we’re “ should be “were “. Autocorrect got me.

That last post wins the bs of the year. Who posted think that audio items have  a top secret in the design. That kind of design or re-designs does not exist yet and when the designer thinks in that way just patented as the FCL and that's.

The audio system of the person who posted: who cares? Several of his posts are full of that kind of bs information that never helps any one .

There is everykind of stupid things in the world, such is life.

R.

@lewm I make you absolutely correct, there is not nothing really new, but there is a uniqueness to some items that is more than the sum of the parts. Hence, it has been made known there has been a thought out process for the selection of Parts and Materials and a consideration given for the machining at the interfaces, where different tolerances were tried to discover the optimum.

As for the Parts and Materials, I have been personally familiarised with all the items to be used, and have been informed of the preparations that are required to enable the parts to function at their optimum.

The parts are not my concern, neither are the tolerances selected for the  machining for the mounting of the parts. This is the designers only to share, if they feel it is an information that should be made public.

What really matters is that I am without reservations for the entirety of the product, as an assembled Tonearm in perform admirably. 

The flak towards another is expected, I see it used constantly, it is certainly a  common thread woven through most post is a Topic under discussion.

I will not let it deter myself from being a participant, as said I have mainly all Bespoke produced devices, it is easy to comprehend that these produce sound, where it gets more difficult is to explain where the level of SQ lies.

A description of a experience is better than an explanation.

At a public attended event where my entire system was used for public demonstrations over the course of a weekend, it proved during the non show hours difficult to vacate the allocated room, as their were no shortage of other guests with systems to demonstrate wanting to be in my room.

During the Public attended period, the demonstration room was never less than full capacity for a large proportion of the event, in the late afternoon a couple of individuals were in the room who had been in the room a few times during the day, and were keen to have a few of there brought along LP's replayed and keen to share in a talk.

I was informed by the visitors that they were a TT Manufacturing Company and were producing TT's in the 50K region and selling to very wealthy clients. There assessment of my system was that it was in their minds on Par with systems they have heard in the 250K region, and I had produced quite a impressive system.

A selection of the local HiFi Club, who have heard many high quality systems at dealerships and at events, as well as within the Club, have rated my system from receiving auditions in my home listening environment, as one of the best that has been demonstrated. 

As a system with mainly Bespoke Built devices, it makes it quite a difficult to system to explain where it qualities are in comparison to other set ups, it is better when the impression made on others are shared.

For myself, I know most there is a lot of what impresses, coming from using very adept, time served individuals, who are with skills developed in their specialist fields not usually encountered, it takes decent pair of Cajones to throw caution to the wind and commission a unconstrained design and build. 

I'll let the broader audience decide if the posts made by myself are off help or not.

The commonly encountered Dictatorship in this forums analog section, where a certain individual takes umbrage at most content offered, resulting in their spieling out their self obsessed opinions and unashamed use of insults is not very democratic.

It is certainly a display of a attitude that is Alienating and not going to be of any assistance to any thread participant or onlooker. It might just be degenerative and is without doubt discouraging to the growth of the analog section within this forum. Where is the value in that!!!