The electronics? The speakers? The cables? Finite state machine python Specifically: are we in this case hearing the "perceived" sonic footprint of the SAT LM tonearm or an attendant coloration elsewhere the reference audio chain? SAT's latest LM tonearm represents a new wave of cutting edge products pushing the reviewing envelope with their vanishingly low colorations and noise floors. Thus, it was a foregone conclusion to ask Marc and Maier about the possibility of reviewing SAT's new inch.įirst by way of a forward. There was that same visceral gut punch when the tsetse fly morphs into a SR or I guess back then an X-1 and travels across the stage at Mach 1. You could almost swear Bob and Ray were standing outside the castle of the crazed doctor Ahkbar and feel the slam of the big brass knocker against the door. The arm's most striking quality was its ability to simultaneously capture and create an eerie, uncannily real feeling of Belafonte strutting around the stage and among and between the various performers. No, this arm just naturally revealed things. No tension to keep one at arms length from the music. That afforded me time to audition both Marc's personal Atlas as well as the Ortofon A95 cartridge that was in house for review in the original 9-inch SAT tonearm. Nor is this my first encounter with a Marc Gomez designed tonearm. Twenty five years ago, I reviewed the triple layer, woven carbon fiber Wilson Benesch A. Now this isn't my first encounter with a tonearm of the carbon fiber kind. Marc's first inch arm design is like his first arm defined by its rigidity, stiffness and sound. The SAT LM, unlike the Air Tangent, is a gimbal bearing based tonearm employing a straight, inch carbon fiber arm tube with a detachable and rotable headshell for azimuth adjustment. Sadly, the arm's designer Leif Haggemark only manufactured-despite requests from many people including moi! That he sold that many arms almost 30 years ago is above all a testament to the arm's superlative sound and audiophile's quest for the Holy Grail. Not to mention how the Air Tangent breezed through records that were nearly or totally unplayable with other arms of the day due to scratches, etc. To this day the Air Tangent's ability to define acoustical space and resolve the finest details from the LP grooves still sticks in my head. The Air Tangent tonearm-for the lucky few that owned this masterpiece-did things that other arms of the day only dreamed about. And it was worth every penny of the massive amount of precision machining that went into its manufacturing commonplace today but cutting edge 30 years ago.
Two of the finest tonearms that I've encountered in my search for the Holy Grail hail from of all places Sweden.
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