The TELOS™
“A truly monumental achievement… The Telos is as good as my master tape.....which is what I use for a reference.” (M. Lavigne, customer)
photo Carl Zapp ©2012
“Aristotle’s understanding of happiness can shed light on those activities that truly engage us; maybe it can teach us something about work and leisure as well. His account is grounded in a more comprehensive understanding of creatures: to understand any particular sort of being, the best way to proceed is by looking at it, and taking note of its characteristic activity. That activity represents the “end” of the creature, its purpose. In Greek, its telos.” (Matthew Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft. Penguin Books, New York, 2009. P.192)
I am very proud to present a new tonearm that I believe redefines the state of the art of vinyl analog reproduction. The result comes from intensive interdisciplinary research--shape optimization, metallurgy, cyclic stress, mechanical energy transfer, electricity, acoustic material science. As its name implies, the study of countless parameters is brought to a natural end in the Telos™.
The development of the project started with a thorough re-examination of the fundamentals of tonearm design, in order to determine what were the most essential elements of its construction. Research was guided by the use of computer simulation tools, FEA, physical experiments, and highly trained listening. Found Music’s Scott Sheaffer was actively involved in several crucial aspects of the development, to complement our work with his vast knowledge of metal properties, electrical transmission, as well as with his fearless imagination and uncanny ears.
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The design
Finite Element Analysis and computer stress simulations were systematically complemented with repeated audition tests, in order to determine which factors were the most relevant to playback performance. The research examined in great detail the questions of vibrations, stress and damping, and how their interactions apply to the system as a whole. Some conventional and commonly accepted wisdom was abandoned in the search, with extreme attention given to the many details of relation between the components involved in the structure of the tonearm and their shape optimization. A vast number of materials, from common to exotic, were evaluated for each part: from set screws to the species of wood used in the cable junction box, nothing was left to chance.
photo Carl Zapp ©2012
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