Sorane SA 1.2

SA-1.2 - price is listed - SA-1.2B - $2725.00 SA-1.2BCS with silver wiring is $3600.00. All hand made and hand assembled by craftsmen Since the organization of IT Industry in 1974, Katsuaki Ishiyama-san has amassed an extensive technical knowhow for the design and development of various tonearms, along with other analog equipment. IT Industry tonearms are manufactured and tted together by hand, with the belief that ne-tuning is only available by craftsmen’s precise and sensitive touch. Even with the use of modern CNC milling machines, to produce basic parts, their expertise is still hand assembly by craftsmen. During nal assembly, parts must be precisely adjusted for ideal mechanical surface contact. Even with the very precise nature of CNC machining, nal tting requires precise grinding and honing, that removes only microns, but leads to much better performance. Shared Features: a CNC, Machine-tooled and hand-assembled by skilled Japanese craftsmen. This highly skilled and delicate hand-assembly differentiates Sorane tonearms from mass-produced Japanese tonearms. With standard quality goals, high-volume production tonearms are manufactured by die-casting and semi-automatic assembly line processes, to keep production costs low. b Concerning the reproduced sound from these models: The designer is confident you will get precise and clean sound, which can only be had from hand-made tonearms, but at a very reasonable price. c In particular, the SA-1.2 and ZA-12 will produce rich and tight bass, coming from the extremely rigid rectangular shaped arm- wand. d Skilled hand assembly does not simply mean “combining the constituent parts by hand”. Skilled hand assembly involves measurement, adjustment and hand-fitting to produce optimalinterface between machined surfaces. Once completed, the tmentbetween every part is ideal, satisfying the necessary conditions for chatter-free reproduction of analog sound. e Most importantly, the key to tonearm quality is highly sensitive and delicate motion, for which the bearings are the determining factor. f Gimbal-bearing designs for excellent bass, dynamic sound and imaging, as well as unconditional azimuth stability (Which is the biggest problem for conventional uni-pivots bearing). http://www.youtek.jp/sorane.html