CF1.

A milestone of pickup-arm engineering, designed from the ground up. Special grades of carbon fibre, bespoke laminates and a unique tube geometry give unprecedented stiffness — built to retrieve every detail from the groove with minimal distortion.

Special-grade carbon fibre

Special grades of carbon fibre, bespoke laminates and a unique tube geometry deliver an even higher stiffness in the SAT range.

Twin stainless yokes

Cardanic main and secondary yokes in stainless steel with a non-stiction sealed vertical bearing, on an aluminium base with a clamping mechanism.

4 030 Hz first resonance

The CF1 carbon fibre tube pushes its natural modes high and quiet — first and second resonances at 4 030 Hz and 9 000 Hz.

Stiffer carbon fibre, larger section

The CF1 armtube is built from a 24% stiffer grade of carbon fibre than the LM, and the tube itself is larger. A larger section resists bending exponentially better — so together, material and geometry raise the tube's stiffness well beyond the LM's.

Stainless steel, not aluminium

The yokes, arm pillar and general structure are machined from stainless steel instead of the LM's aluminium — roughly three times as stiff, so the structure carrying the bearings deflects three times less under the same force.

The titanium evolution of the CF1 — a titanium tube inside the carbon-fibre armtube and a titanium headshell frame, for even greater stiffness. The bearing stiffness has also been increased while keeping it non-stiction and frictionless. Offered in 9″ and 12″, reserved for owners of the XD1 turntable.

In the areas where the CF1 uses carbon fibre with aluminium, the CF1-Ti replaces it with space-grade titanium — increasing stiffness 65%, with an elastic modulus of about 114 GPa against aluminium's 69 GPa, deflecting nearly 40% less under the same load.

Titanium is also roughly 1.7 times heavier than aluminium, so the CF1-Ti carries a tungsten-alloy counterweight insert to balance the added mass. Tungsten alloy is one of the densest engineering materials — denser than lead, yet hard and completely stable.