Chrome arm with sapphire

 In 2016 I made a custom  RP1, which I called the RP1-CR9 using chromed brass parts with bright and satin polished alloy parts.

It is a nominal 9" (213mm) effective length, with adjustable offset angle at the headshell and adjustable pivot to spindle distance  at the base as per the standard arm.

It has a sapphire mounted on the headshell.

RP1 CR9

In 2014 I visited a show in Brighton to see what was happening, as I'd lost touch a bit with the hifi scene. While there, Jason Kennedy of The Ear  magazine took a really nice photo of a recent chrome and satin anodised arm I'd made which I'd taken along and has used it in the mag.

It's a version of what I am going to call from now on (not that there's going to be many of them made), the RP1 Cr 9 or Cr-12 (or Cr-whatever, depending on effective length).


The Ear mag contains news, reviews and show reports, and is definitely well worth a look.