New table from a promising German manufacturer

The Talea™ is a medium-mass tonearm that can be used with most modern cartridges on the market.
Bearing: Unipivot, Swiss-made non-corrosive, non-magnetic stainless steel pivot in a sapphire jewel. The center of mass of the tonearm is in the same plane as the bearing, thus ensuring an ideal dynamic balance, without the need for the outrigger weights commonly found on other unipivot systems
VTA: on the fly fine adjustment, with knob; each turn of the knob corresponds to 0.5 mm change in height, thanks to an extremely precise 50 TPI thread (finer than micrometer thread). Maximum range: 23 mm. The VTA tower is fastened to the inner column with a clamp mechanism, ensuring maximum mating and rigidity between the parts
Azimuth: adjustable on the fly. We discuss the question of azimuth setting here
Progressive anti-skating mechanism

The THALES SIMPLICITY II sets the benchmark for what is possible in tonearm-design today. The tracking geometry is based on a unique tetragon solution that reduces the tracking-error to 0,006°.

Our new TTF-bearing-technology makes sure the performance achieves a level never reached before, as the micro-ball-bearings are arranged in a tension-free setup. The intrinsic frequencies of the two tonearm tubes are carefully tuned to improve on the damping properties of any single arm tube design.

The SIMPLICITY II comes with a special tool to make sure the installation is as precise as the manufacturing. The headshell can be removed very easily for exact alignment of the cartridge. Three different counter weights, each with a different mass are supplied to enable a wide range of cartridges to be used (7 to 23 grams). The tonearm is available in bronze, grey or black anodized finish and is featured with Thales’s our own internal wiring. This wiring is very flexible and made of purest copper. Three different wiring terminations are available.

Specifications:
Body: aluminium, resonance controlled
Cantilever: 0.3mm solid boron
Stylus: PA (3 x 30µm) solid diamond
Core/coils: Ultra grade 3S - µ metal square core with 5N silver coils
Magnet: neodymium – front & rear
Weight: 7.8g
Output voltage: 0.2mV (3.54cm/s, 1kHz)
Internal impedance: 1 ohm
Frequency response: 10Hz – 20kHz +1.5dB, 20kHz – 40kHz +2dB
Channel separation: > 30dB (200Hz - 1kHz)
Channel balance: < 0.5dB at 1kHz
Tracking ability: > 70µm at tracking force 2.0g at 315Hz
Dynamic compliance: 13 x 10-6 cm/dyne
Recommended loading: > 10 ohms
Recommend’ tracking force: 2.0 g
Optimum working temperature: 23º Celsius
Break in period: 30 hours

We used Japanese bamboo (madake) for a new cartridge.
Mr.Thomas Edison used this special madake to the filament of the electric bulb in old days.
This special madake is produced only from the mountain of Kyoto, Japan.

Mr.Thomas Edison found this highest quality madake from 1,200 kinds of bamboo of the world.
This madake is the firm bamboo which grew in the rich soil of the iron content.
Because I was looking for the firm cantilever which was not metal, it was the accidentally same condition.

I negotiated to obtain special madake in Iwashimizu Hachiman-gu Shrine of the mountain of Kyoto.
Because I respect Mr.edison of the inventor,

This arm uses a unique 4-point bearing. Two points (which are similar to a uni-pivot bearing) allow and control vertical movements of the tonearm. The other set of two pointed bearings allow and control horizontal (lateral) movements of the tonearm. All four points of the bearing have minimal friction and zero-play in all planes of movement, thus ensuring that the cartridge platform and the cartridge itself follow the grooves of an LP with extremely low friction and minimal vibrations.

This arm is currently redundant in my system as the Sperling can only accommodate 2 arms. A fantastic arm but pity that I can only accommodate 2...

Germany-based Trinity Electronic Design's

Rhea is an all-tube phono stage, suitable for moving coil and moving magnet cartridges. It offers high maximum gain at 75 dB, making it ideal for low output cartridges. Rhea broke new ground as the first phono stage with 3 phono inputs, the first with gain and loading settings stored in memory for every input, and the first with full remote control adjustability. Dual-mono audio boards provide superb channel separation and soundstaging. A cartridge demagnetizer is a built-in convenience that can also be operated by remote control. The all-aluminum chassis is designed for rigidity and acoustic inertness, the brushed anodized panels are beautiful too. Rhea has enjoyed worldwide acclaim for its sound quality, build quality, flexibility and ease of use.

Three RCA inputs.
Each input has its own gain and loading setting that is saved even when in standby mode or the unit is turned off.
Zero feedback.
40-75dB gain maximum, selectable via front panel or remote control.
9 MC loading settings: 75-47,000 ohms, selectable via front panel or remote control.
Remote control of gain, loading, input switching, mute, and demagnetizer.
Built-in MC cartridge demagnetizer.
Two sets of XLR and two sets of RCA outputs per channel.

Tubes:

12AX7 Telefunken Tektronix Selected Smooth plate

12AX7 Mazda Chrome plates

12AX7 Mullard 10M Master Series

Amperex Tektronix Selected

BurrBrown PCM1792: input and output digital data up to 24 - 192kHz
- Four independent fully discrete analog modules for each of the analog signals from the BB PCM1792
- Improved analog modules allowing a more dynamic and analog like sound

The D5000 is a PCM and DSD compatible digital to analogue converter. It has a tube-based, direct-heated-triode analogue output circuit (4 valves) as well as a tube-based internal power supply (2 valves).
Most of its components are not from any routine audio market source except the DAC chips. The USB interface, SPDIF receiver and high end upsamplers are all specifically customized for this application. D5000 uses very unique technologies for audio signal processing. The clock does not directly connect to the DAC chip. Instead, the audio processor uses clock alignment algorithms that determine exact alignment for the DAC chip in a real-time manner. The ES9018K2M SABRE 32 Reference DAC chip is a high performance 32-bit, 2-channel audio D/A converter with sampling to 32/384 kHz, 128 DSD and uses a 1.5 MHz upsampler through a field-programmable gate array USB interface.

While most ES9018K based DACs use the dac chip for audio processing, the D5000 has a proprietary internal processor that performs real time PCM upsampling or upsampling and conversion to DSD. The SABRE Reference DAC chip only performs the digital to analog conversion.

Spectral’s DMC-30SS has ultra-fast circuits, new volume control, innovative power supply, and meticulous attention to detail. Timbres are richly saturated, soundstages huge and defined, and resolution of transient detail is superb. Moreover, the DMC-30SS has absolutely spectacular soundstaging, with tremendous depth, width, layering along a continuum, and sense of air among instruments. The DMC-30SS is extremely “fast”-sounding with lightning-quick reproduction of transient detail, yet it never sounds analytical. The Absolute Sound

Amplifier on order...

Type: Three-way, dynamic driver, floorstanding loudspeaker
Driver complement: 9” carbon-fiber sandwich composite woofer; 6” carbon-fiber sandwich composite midrange; 1” beryllium dome tweeter
Frequency response: 28Hz–30kHz +/-3dB
Nominal impedance: 4 ohms
Sensitivity: 87.5dB
Dimensions: 12.5” x 43.5” x 20”*
Weight: 150 lbs. each

Interconnect MA-X Rev. 2 Interconnect is the next generation of fully-adjustable articulation audio interfaces. Designed to pair with the Oracle MA-X Rev. 2 HD and the Oracle Matrix HD line of speaker interfaces, the Oracle MA-X Rev. 2 utilizes an unsurpassed 98 poles of articulation. With 98 poles of articulation, the timbre is full, natural and rich, and the textures remain thick and dense, ensuring that voices and instruments will not lose their natural tones. All voices and instruments are “painted” on a noise-free background and portrayed within a large three-Dimensional soundstage, remaining rock solid over a greater dynamic range. Rock-solid soundstage and better image specificity have once again been enhanced in the Oracle MA-X Rev. 2 interconnect via recent improvements involving two proprietary MIT® 2C3D technologies, SIT® (Stable Image Technology) and JFA® (Jitter Free Analog). Stable Image Technology ensures that the soundstage will retain its proper dimensional proportions, regardless of power demands, while Jitter Free Analog ensures that all images emitted from within the soundstage are heard from a black background with precise location and clarity, regardless of your choice of volume setting.

Interconnect MA-X Rev. 2 Interconnect is the next generation of fully-adjustable articulation audio interfaces. Designed to pair with the Oracle MA-X Rev. 2 HD and the Oracle Matrix HD line of speaker interfaces, the Oracle MA-X Rev. 2 utilizes an unsurpassed 98 poles of articulation. With 98 poles of articulation, the timbre is full, natural and rich, and the textures remain thick and dense, ensuring that voices and instruments will not lose their natural tones. All voices and instruments are “painted” on a noise-free background and portrayed within a large three-Dimensional soundstage, remaining rock solid over a greater dynamic range. Rock-solid soundstage and better image specificity have once again been enhanced in the Oracle MA-X Rev. 2 interconnect via recent improvements involving two proprietary MIT® 2C3D technologies, SIT® (Stable Image Technology) and JFA® (Jitter Free Analog). Stable Image Technology ensures that the soundstage will retain its proper dimensional proportions, regardless of power demands, while Jitter Free Analog ensures that all images emitted from within the soundstage are heard from a black background with precise location and clarity, regardless of your choice of volume setting.

The Oracle MA-X SHD Proline XLR Interconnect is the next generation of fully-adjustable articulation audio interfaces. Designed to pair with the Oracle Matrix SHD line of speaker interfaces, the Oracle MA-X SHD Proline XLR utilizes an unsurpassed 110 poles of articulation. With 113 poles of articulation, the timbre is full, natural and rich, and the textures remain thick and dense, ensuring that voices and instruments will not lose their natural tones. All voices and instruments are “painted” on a noise-free background and portrayed within a large three-Dimensional soundstage, remaining rock solid over a greater dynamic range. Rock-solid soundstage and better image specificity have once again been enhanced in the Oracle MA-X SHD Proline XLR interconnects through continued breakthroughs and improvements based on two proprietary MIT® 2C3D technologies, SIT® (Stable Image Technology) and JFA® (Jitter Free Analog). Stable Image Technology ensures that the soundstage will retain its proper dimensional proportions, regardless of power demands, while Jitter Free Analog ensures that all images emitted from within the soundstage are heard from a black background with precise location and clarity, regardless of your choice of volume setting.

A new conductor alloy is used in the Enhanced version which has a greatly increased ferromagnetic permeability for increased levels of Magnetic Conduction and peformance.

The conductor is treated with a proprietary material that lowers dielectric absorption so signals are not held back by the change in electrical charge of the teflon dielectric.

The PinLok connector has been redesigned for increased ferromagnetic permeability in the pin itself. This allows low level signals to move more easily into the conductor.

Precision 24K gold plate is applied at 300 microns which is double the industries thickest plating standard. The ground ring is also plated to help ensure optimal low level signal performance.

Magnetic Conduction is a patented method of signal transfer for electrical energy. It uses a controlled magnetic field as the pathway for the signal. Testing at the University of Toronto show dramatically reduced distortion and increased signal to noise ratio compared to typical cables. The conductor is a unique and proprietary alloy specifically designed to work with this technology.

Traditional RCA connectors cause the signal to micro arc across the resistive pathway of the connection. Our patented PinLoK RCA connector has an oversized pin that will compress to enter a normal RCA socket. Spring tension then continues to push and expand the inserted pin for maximum contact pressure. This increase in surface contact lowers the amount of micro arcing and reduces distortion.

Skin effect in a cable is created by opposing magnetic forces which cause the signal to push to the extreme outer edges of the conductor. Our magnetic wave guide technology creates a tunnelling effect focusing the magnetic force into the middle of the conductor. This eliminates the cause of skin effect and preserves the time and phase aspect of the original signal.

Micro vibrations are introduced into an audio system by a multitude of sources and will follow the signal path looking to dissipate to a larger mass or point of stress. Each of our cables feature extensive mechanical vibration decoupling. Multiple conductive plates made with a specialized powdered material are used to dampen the vibration transfer within the connector itself.

High Fidelity Cables uses a dual shielded coaxial design that has extremely high rejection capability. This coaxial design is combined with Magnetic Conduction's patented ability to control unwanted electro magentic interference. This particular geometry gives all our cables a class leading ability to filter out unwanted radio waves (RFI) and stray magnetic fields (EMI).

An even purer grade of conductor alloy is used in the Ultimate, increasing ferromagnetic permeability to a higher level.

Each CT-1U Interconnect Cable contains an inline Wave Guide V2 module. Wave guides are powerful magnetic systems that enhance the performance of Magnetic Conduction based cables to a high degree.

The magnetic technology found in the connectors is more powerful than those in the CT-1 and CT-1E.

Fractional Articulation Technology, developed with a test and measurement technique called Fractional Octave Analysis, is the latest breakthrough in component interfacing from MIT Cables. Building on MA-X Technology, which reveals the entire spectrum of out-of-octave harmonics, F.A.T. reveals all of the music that exists inter-octave. By selecting HD and engaging F.A.T., one hears lifelike transients and improved detail within the octaves of complex music.

Larger than the Matrix 100 and smaller than the Oracle MA-X, the Matrix 120 features the unique and “future proof”* modular cable design that is hand laidand hand twisted. Teflon® insulated OFC strandings are used to ensure that noise-related distortions associated with the dielectric or the conductor are minimized.

Dedicated EMI/RFI passive filtration component with proprietary modules made with classified composite materials

Proprietary Pure Silver Grounding Cables

Point-to-point wiring

No transformers, circuit boards, caps, op-amps, ferrites, coils, chips, plastics, LED’s or degrading parts that would create any electronic signature to the sound

Eliminates ground loop

Provides impedance ground match for all your components

Eliminates cheater plugs that degrades the sound

Does not interfere with music flow, impulse signal flow

Vibration control tuning. Through resonance control and implementation of the right materials we can tune your Tripoint system to match your personal preferences

Copper binding post provided to ground your components

Solid African Bubinga chassis

Anodize laser engraved Tripoint logo on new design top face plate.

CNC deep engraved Troy Signture mini front plate.

Elegant appearance with different wood finishes available

Ten Year Warranty