Audio Note Arm Three/II Tonearm

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The Arm Three/II is the top model up in this family of tonearms, and features improved wiring over other models.

It's an exquisitely made arm which use a single piece of machined aluminium for the one piece arm tube/headshell, which is internally tapered to keep the arm both stiff and light. Another solid block of aluminium is machined to make the bearing housing which contains ‘captured unipivot’ bearings.

The arm uses the same geometry and fixings as Rega arms, so can be fitted to almost any deck, and thanks to a wonderfully simple and effective collar, vta can easily and repeatedly be adjusted in tiny increments (there’s a clear marking for every 0.25mm increment). The supplied nut can be done up by hand so you don't even need tools (although a spanner can be used too).

The Arm Three/II features silver wiring, inside the tonearm is Audio Notes silver Litz high purity wiring which has the additional benefit of being very flexible around the bearings. The external wire is the Audio Note AN-Vx silver litz screened cable.

Over the AN-S wired Arm Two/II the benefits of this arm are basically more of the same, with extra authority to lower frequencies, greater scale along with excellent tonality

At first the most striking thing about the sound of these arm is the sheer speed of transients, the leading edges of notes are captured brilliantly and seemingly not at the expense of their natural decay (as is often the case with many ‘fast’ sounding products).

 It has a very focused and tight sound, like it’s always in control but it doesn’t ‘sit on’ the music at all. In fact I it’s a very hard product to fault - all I could really come up with was that the finger lift doesn’t hook around your finger and so at times feels like it could slip off, but the superb lift/lower mechanism makes this redundant anyway.

If you’re in the market for an arm at this level then you really should get an audition, I can think of no other arms that combines this level of precision, speed and musicality.