2. analog
  3. 186297-5435

Clearaudio universal tonearm re-wire.

ClearAudio uses the thinnest tonearm wire imaginable. I have had to situations were I have broken the very delicate wires. I would like to replace the wire with something more secure but don’t want mess it up. Has anybody re-wired a Clearaudio tonearm before? It took almost a year to get it back from Clearaudio last time to have it fixed. I don’t want to deal with this anymore and I’m willing to sacrifice a little sonically for this headache to go away.

hiendmmoe
chayro
2,930 posts
 

See if VAS will do it for you. They do tonearm rewiring, but you need to check if they can do that model. Good luck.

elliottbnewcombjr
5,190 posts
 

VAS, Steve Leong and his son Ray are terrific people, and do excellent work.

I'm lucky enough to live 35 minutes from their shop.

They re-wired my tonearm with his favorite wire which is sturdier than the litz wire it came with. No way to know for sure, but the sturdier wire sounded the same as the esoteric litz wire to me when I got it back.

Good advice, check if they work on that arm, I imagine yes,

https://vasnyinc.com/

mulveling's avatar
mulveling
1,774 posts
 

Don’t have any new ideas for you (VAS sounds reasonable), but I sympathize on the long lead times getting anything from Clearaudio Germany. Simple arm boards can take several months to show up. I also have a Universal and those lead wires make me nervous too.

More to discover