What's the best unipivot to arm ever made?

Cousinbilly,

not all 12" tonearms are created equal; but like they say, size does matter. :^)

and FYI both the Talea 1 and Talea 2 are 10.5" arms, not 9.5".

What about Nottingham 12" arms?

"My system is at the point where the limitations of a 9.5" arm are noticable."
Especially given that the Talea is actually 10.5 inches long, what does that statement mean?

Lewm,

"the counter-weight is pretty far back from the pivot point"

This is just the way the photo was made, it's not an indication of how the counterweight "should" be placed. The position of the counterweight will depend on cartridge weight and there are of course other positions that will work fine. The Telos is shipped with 4 counterweights and the user can choose the combination that sounds best for a given cartridge. I'm not advocating that the best sound is with the counterweight as far as possible from the pivot point; but sometimes it happens to be the best position.

Cheers,
Joel

Thanks, Joel. I did not mean for my remark to constitute a criticism of the design. Rather, I meant to imply that sometimes the "rules" of tonearm design are better off when broken, intelligently.