NEW KUZMA SAFIR 9 TONEARM ANNOUNCED

Kuzma, the high-end Slovenian turntable and tonearm and cartridge brand, has a new flagship nine-inch tonearm due for release this spring, the Kuzma Safir 9.

After five-years of research and development, during which Kuzma has refined their existing designs and practices as well as introduced new materials, the Kuzma Safir 9 tonearm is finally ready for launch and will be shown for the first time at High End Munich 2022.

The new flagship Kuzma Safir 9 Tonearm

KUZMA SAFIR 9 TONEARM

The Kuzma Safir 9’s most obvious feature and the heart of the design is its conical sapphire arm tube. This provides the cartridge with stability, delivering optimum electromechanical performance from the generator. Extremely rigid, this tube is stiffer and offers a higher resonant frequency than any arm tube the brand has previously used. Its first break-up mode occurs at over 5KHz.

4POINT DESIGN

The bearings are a further development of Kuzma’s proprietary 4Point design, the four contact spikes being located in sapphire/ruby receptacles. These are designed to ensure rigid, friction-free coupling of the tonearm to its mount, allowing the headshell to move, freely and precisely on the optimum path across the record.

PRECISION ADJUSTMENTS

The sapphire tube and bearings are fitted into solid aluminium and brass blocks, whose inert support helps dissipate the mechanical vibration generated during playback. The double brass counterweight (with locking mechanism) allows extremely precise application of VTF, while azimuth can also be precision adjusted in small, repeatable increments with zero play. Kuzma says that the use of the sapphire arm tube makes this a high effective mass tonearm, suitable for low compliance cartridges only.

The tonearm is mounted to the turntable’s arm board using the Kuzma arm base. Arm height is adjusted with a fine VTA screw which controls the height of the tonearm’s pillar in the arm base, allowing allows precise and repeatable adjustments whenever required.

KONDO SILVER WIRE

The internal wiring uses special silver alloy wires from Kondo that run, unbroken from the cartridge pins via a 1.5 m long tonearm cable to the silver RCA connectors.

KUZMA SAFIR 9 TONEARM SPECIFICATIONS

Effective Length: 229 mm (9 inches)

Mounting Distance From Spindle: 212 mm

Offset Angle: 23 deg

Tube: Sapphire conical

Effective Mass: 60 grams*

VTA Adjustment: Yes

Azimuth Adjustment: Yes

Bias Compensation/Adjustment: Yes

Arm mount: Kuzma arm base 212 mm

Internal Wiring: Silver Alloy (Kondo wires)

Overall Mass (Weight): 1250 grams

*Suitable for cartridges with CU below 25- tonearm resonances will be in range of 5-7 Hz which is preferable

PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

20,.000€

Due for release in May 2022, Kuzma is distributed in the UK by Definitive Audio, which is also the home of Living Voice and other high-end brands.

HiFi Pig Says: We are very much looking forward to hearing what this new Kuzma flagship can do at High End Munich 2022.

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