The Wand Tonearm at the Bonn HiFi Show 2015 (West Deutsche HiFi Tage) October 22 2015

The Show Season continues with our new German Distributor Input Audio, had a successful room at the recent Bonn HiFi Show 2015 (West Deutsche HiFi Tage). The Wand Tonearm® apparently sounded great fitted to a Palmer turntable and playing through Croft electronics and Harbeth speakers.
The combination even drew applause after playing a Billy Holiday record!
http://www.inputaudio.de/6-westdeutsche-hifi-tage-bonn/

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.

 

Australasian Analogue Action at the Sydney Audio Club November 24 2014

Vince from Once Analogue presented a very successful demonstration at the Sydney Audio Club on 16th Nov

The result obviously impressed them with the following comment;

".....the turntable I helped present at the Sydney Audio Club yesterday met the only real measure that a turntable should need to meet: exceptional and maybe even the best musical reproduction in its price range.
  It was an Australian Once Analog, with a NZ Wand tonearm and a fairly modest Grado Moving Iron cartridge."

For the full post, see; http://www.stereo.net.au/forums/index.php?/topic/7681-tantalising-turntables/page-68

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.

12in Wand tonearm on PTP Solid 12 turntable ready to rock them at the Brussels High End Show. October 17 2014

A 12in Wand tonearm is now mounted on a PTP Solid 12 turntable and is ready to rock them at the  Brussels High End show on October 25 and 26 in the Amplitude room.

More Magic for Lenco Enthusiasts! PTP Audio are offering The Wand Tonearm September 17 2014

PTP Audio are famous in the audio world for their turntables and components based on Swiss Lenco turntables from the 1970s. PTP turntables marry the famous PTP (Peters Top Plate) components with fabulous Corian Plinths. These have been awarded a Blue Moon Award from 6 Moons and prestigious Stereophile (US) recommendation,  so they are seriously good turntables and a great match for The Wand.

After trialling The Wand Unipivot Tonearm, Peter has enthusiastically adopted The Wand as one of the tonearms he offers for sale.  He commented when using a Midas Denon 103 on The Wand; So far I'm seriously impressed. Great tonality and dynamics before fitting a ZYX Universe when he exclaimed;  All I can say is that it sounds fantastic :-))

PTP is about to use The Wand on PTP turntables at two upcoming European HiFi Shows in The High End Show in Brussels and AAA Analog Tage in Krefeld, Germany (Full details soon).

Milan & Turin Shows and new Italian Distributor for The Wand Tonearm September 08 2014

We are proud to announce our new Italian Distributor for The Wand Tonearm.

Ayon Italia distributes an exciting range of products throughout Italy. As the name implies, they are Distributors for the rather wonderful Austrian Ayon Audio valve amplifiers Link. as well as hi-end Swiss speaker makers Lumen White.

Ayon Italia has a particularly strong suite of analogue products, from the appropriately named Lumen White Mystere turntable, through to two great ranges of phono cartridges, Miyajima Lab representing handcrafted MC's and Nagoaka, quality Japanese MM cartridges.

The Wand Tonearm is literally and figuratively able to bridge between these components.

 

Even more exciting is that there will be an opportunity to see these products at the Milan Audio Show  27/28 September 2014.

And soon after to hear them at the Turin Show in October. We hope to have The Wand Tonearm mounted on the Lumin White Mystere turntable.

 

For more details contact Ayon Italia  info@hifi4music.com   

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

First Post August 01 2014 1 Comment

Wow, my first Blog and a brand new site via Shopify!

Actually, it probably means that while some aspects are greatly improved, some will be a bit clunky till everything is loaded and tidied up. (Mid August?) If in doubt or something seems unclear or wrong, just email us.

But I'm quite excited by the possibilities this allows.

Ciao

Simon