New Wand - Dunedin Sound Teeshirt, any interest? December 06 2015

First Wand Tonearm Installation video now on line! December 03 2015

The first (of five) Wand Tonearm Installation videos is now on line on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/147436665 This one is about five minutes long.

Thanks for the video making to Jemma Wells Photography!

The others will gradually roll out in the next few months.

Swedish Style December 01 2015

 

Swedish Dealer Hembioconsult has been showing The Wand tonearm on an Analogue Works Turntable with Lyra Delos cartridge on their Facebook page, more nice photos and sound.

Linn LP12- Wand experiments. November 24 2015

Stylus Audio (Sweden) Linn LP12- Wand experiments.

Our Scandinavian Distributor Stylus Audio have been busy experimenting with The Wand Tonearm® on a variety of turntables with different cartridges.

Recently they have been running it on a couple of rebuilt Linn LP12s. Shown here with Lyra Delos and Dynavector's top cartridge the XV1.

Apparently the sound is as good as their photography…

It is timely to mention that we are now selling a dedicated LP12 - Wand armboard. This will alow you to fit either a 9.5in or 10.3in Wand to a Linn Sondek.

The Wand at Rocky Mountain Audio Festival (RMAF) Room 465 September 27 2015

Our Dallas, Texas retailer, Mockingbird Distribution is using The Wand Tonearm as part of the release for a new range of moving coil cartridges from Japan, 華 (or hana, which means “brilliant and gorgeous” in the original Japanese). HANA Phono Cartridges use high rigidity aluminum cantilevers, and cross-shaped armatures, providing you with brilliant and gorgeous sound.  Hana “SH” and “SL” use nude natural diamond Shibata-stylus, capable of excellent high frequency response, giving you supreme transparency and excellent trackability.

Come and listen at RMAF 2015, in room 465.

New Collection of Cartridges on The Wand Tonearm. September 27 2015

 From Nagaoka MP200 to Jasmine Audio Tiger by way of Grado Platinum...
Over on Pinterest; https://www.pinterest.com/thewandtone…/cartridge-collection/

October 2015 Issue of HiFi Choice now out with interview with Simon Brown about The Wand Tonearm. September 06 2015

October 2015 Issue of HiFi Choice is now out with interview with Simon Brown about The Wand Tonearm.

David Price has crafted a nice three page article from a rambling conversation about The Wand tonearm, it's design aims and origins.

New 10.3in Wand Tonearm (and Series 2) August 24 2015

The Wand 10.3in tonearm has been explicitly designed to be the longest arm that you can fit on a Linn Sondek LP12 or Technics SL1200 family turntable without having to make major modifications.

After a positive response to the 12in version of The Wand Unipivot Tonearm® Design Build Listen ltd are releasing a 10.3in version which promises 2/3 of the benefits of the 12in arm in a format that will fit many existing turntables.

While 12in arms may improve tracing distortion performance by around 30% compared to ‘standard’ 9in arms, a 10.3in arm achieves close to 20% improvement in a format that is achievable for many users.

 We are 12in arm converts but we found that many people are unable to fit 12in arms to their treasured turntables. The 10.3in arm makes this possible for many users, the benefits being heard in the increase in subtle musical detail. The Wand 10.3in remains a medium mass arm (14g) enabling it to be used with a wide range of cartridges.

 Dedicated mounting kits are available for both Linn LP12 and Technics SL1200 family turntables, to make it even easier. 

At the same time we have made a raft of improvements to The Wand Tonearm® culminating in Series 2 status, this includes a new Tungsten Carbide cup bearing, Laser sintered (3D printed) Titanium headshell and a change to brass as the base material for most of the arm parts. These combine to improve both sound quality and finish.

Direct Drive Delights; New Pinterest Board August 16 2015

Direct Drive Delights; Things come full circle, as vinyl enthusiasts know. Not only is vinyl back, but Direct Drive turntables which became very unfashionable in English speaking countries in the 1980s, are back. They do offer their own strengths, a dynamic that belt drives often struggle with.

We have started a new Board on Pinterest to show The Wand Tonearm on some of  these turntables.

See; Link

NEWS; The Wand Tonearm nominated for the New Zealand Innovation Awards. July 17 2015

NEWS; The Wand Tonearm & Design Build Listen has been nominated for the New Zealand Innovation Awards.
More as we progress....

Rockin with Analogue Works Turntable at the North West Audio Show this weekend! June 24 2015

Divine Audio are Showing their Analogue Works range of turntables at the North West Audio Show at Cranage Hall  this weekend.

The Wand Tonearm will be there too fitted on with this lovely Decca Maroon cartridge.
Be there or be digital......

The Wand Tonearm at Munich High End Audio Show May 17 2015

The Wand Tonearm has generated a lot of interest being displayed at the Munich  High End Audio Show. It is being  exhibited on the Analogue Works 2.0 turntable (Hall 3 Stand G07).

Tonearm Heaven in Kuala Lumpur May 12 2015

Tonearm heaven in Kuala Lumpur!
Just had a wonderful couple of days in Malaysia and visited a number of Wand tonearm owners there as it seems to have gained a bit of a cult following.
I had a great time with friendly folks with some really serious audio gear. I  was tempted to entitle this "Being punched in the head in K-L" as the combination of Decca cartridge/ Wand Arm / Lenco L70 with a MOSFET  driven pair of 1960s JBL gave some of the most wonderfully punchy music I have ever heard. This will probably become a longer blog but a bit of a taster, some photos attached.

This Month's Cartridge Collection February 14 2015

We've posted an other interesting bunch of cartidges being used  on The Wand on Pinterest.

See; Link

Including;

-Audio Technica  OC9 on a Technics SL1200
-Denon DL103 + Midas Body on a PTP Audio turntable
-Transfiguration Tempur 
-Sumiko Pearl
-Ortofon Cadenza Bronze on Thorens TD160

 

The Wand Tonearm on zStereo February 06 2015

UK HiFi Journalist David Price has a wonderful personal selection of gear on a site called zStereo.

This includes all sorts of famous and obscure bits of gear from the past as well as some of the very latest gear. When he was editor of HiFi World, David published the first review of The Wand Tonearm so we are proud that he has added it to his listing with a nice review of the Classic model.

 

Cartridge Collection January 13 2015

I've started a 'board' on Pintrest with a Cartridge Collection. Link

Different cartridges fitted to The Wand tonearm.

This will get randomly added to.

 

Photos from the Brussels High End Show October 29 2014

  Brussels High End show was held on October 25 and 26 and The Wand was proudly demonstrated PTP Solid 12. A couple of photos from Peter at PTP Audio gives a taste.....

So next weekend it is the AAA Krefeld Show, a show for Analogue enthusiasts in Germany.

Custom made Nottingham Analogue Turntable with The Wand 12in August 26 2014

 

It's been a long time coming....maybe not because the trees had to grow but they had to fell a few to make this turntable...

UK customer Alan had a woodworker friend make a special plinth for his Nottingham Analogue Mentor, with stand alone mounts for his tonearms (The Wand 9in and 12in Tonearms)

Alan was very pleased with the sound, commenting;

I mounted the 12" arm on the turntable and it sounds really great.  Even my parents noticed the difference between the 9" and 12" arm. I have been playing it all weekend and amazed how the music seems to just flow with great bass.

Just another photo as it looks so great..

New Swedish Distributor for The Wand Tonearm August 23 2014

We are very pleased to announce that Audio Connection has been announced as Swedish Distributors for The Wand Tonearm.

Audio Connection Link are distributors of Harbeth loudspeakers and Kimber cable amoungst other product.

They will be demonstrating The Wand on the beautiful and great sounding Palmer 2.5 turntable Link

Great New Magazine Reviews for The Wand August 18 2014

The latest HiFi Choice (UK) magazine has a good review of The Wand Plus.

This is a follow up on Neville Robert's earlier review of The Wand Classic (which he awarded 5 stars) he concluded;

"The Wand Plus scores over the Classic in terms of features and refinement. The engineering is top class and this arm will certainly impart some magic to your recordings."

 

This follows last month's great review in HiFi Plus (UK) of The Wand Plus as fitted to an Analogue Works turntable One.

Where reviewer Alan Sircom commented; “What The Wand brings to the party is excitement. …. a sense of speed and energy and zest to the LP.    .....the bass has a real sense of shape and dynamism to it. Soundstaging, image separation and image solidarity are good too.." The full review is on the HiFi Plus website