Kuzma - Safir 9 - 9" Sapphire Tonearm w/ Arm Tube

Kuzma - Safir 9 - 9" Sapphire Tonearm w/ Arm Tube

After five years of concerted research and development, an effort that has refined the existing designs and practices as well as introducing entirely new and unique materials, the revolutionary Safir 9 tonearm is finally ready for launch! A significant step forward in performance, the new flagship tonearm will be shown for the first time at the Munich High-End Show in May 2022.

The Safir 9’s most obvious feature and the heart of the design is its conical sapphire arm tube. This provides the cartridge with unprecedented stability, delivering optimum electro-mechanical performance from the generator. Extremely rigid, this tube is stiffer and offers a higher resonant frequency than any arm tube ever previously used. It's first break-up mode occurs at over 5KHz, providing the cartridge motor with a true mechanical ground. Due to the use of a sapphire tube, this is a high effective mass tonearm!

The bearings are a further development of Kuzma's own, proprietary, 4Point design: the four contact spikes located in sapphire/ruby receptacles. These 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. The sapphire tube and bearings are fitted into massive solid aluminum 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 (Vertical Tracking Force), while azimuth can also be precision adjusted in small, repeatable increments with zero play. The use of the sapphire armtube makes this a highly 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 (Vertical Tracking Angle) screw which controls the height of the tonearm's pillar in the arm base, allowing precise and repeatable adjustments whenever required. The internal wiring uses special silver alloy wires that run, unbroken from the cartridge pins via a 1.5m (4.9') long tonearm cable to the silver RCA connectors. SAFIR 9 reveals the ultimate potential of your cartridge: unveiling musical detail, nuance, and expression previously hidden in your record's grooves.

Move up to the Safir 9 and you will suddenly discover not just a whole new record collection, but that the music and musicians you've always loved are even better than you realized!

NOTE: USA sales and shipment only. This product is special order. Tonearms do not come with a cartridge. No cables are included with DIN Tonearms. Some Kuzma items ship from overseas, so delivery times may vary. Accordingly, delivery may take 4-6+ weeks. For questions about availability and shipment, please contact Sound Approach.