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SAT
Website:https://www.swedishat.com/
SAT, short for Swedish Analog Technologies, is a small maker of tonearms and a turntable founded by engineer Marc Gomez and now based on Fuerteventura. It builds a very limited number of hand-made record playback instruments at the top end of the market, starting with carbon fibre pickup arms and later adding the XD1 turntable.
Range & what it's known for
The range has two arm families, the LM series and the CF1 series, each in 9-inch and 12-inch lengths, plus a titanium CF1-Ti reserved for XD1 owners. The arms use autoclave-cured, laminated aerospace carbon fibre, and the maker quotes a first resonance of 4,030 Hz for the CF1-09. The XD1 is a direct-drive deck on a fixed chassis with a 12kg platter in a magnesium, aluminium and silicon alloy and 33, 45 and 78rpm speeds.
Who owns it and where it's made
Gomez trained in mechanical engineering and materials science and worked on Ariane rocket engines, the Porsche Carrera GT and Rolls-Royce waterjet engines before SAT. Every part is CNC machined and finished in-house and each product is built by hand.
The lineup in this catalog
Turntables. The XD1 is the model listed here.
Who it's for
SAT is for vinyl collectors with a no-limits budget who want an engineering-led arm or a complete reference deck. The usual route in is an LM arm, then a CF1, and finally the XD1 with its own CF1-Ti arm.
Range & what it's known for
The range has two arm families, the LM series and the CF1 series, each in 9-inch and 12-inch lengths, plus a titanium CF1-Ti reserved for XD1 owners. The arms use autoclave-cured, laminated aerospace carbon fibre, and the maker quotes a first resonance of 4,030 Hz for the CF1-09. The XD1 is a direct-drive deck on a fixed chassis with a 12kg platter in a magnesium, aluminium and silicon alloy and 33, 45 and 78rpm speeds.
Who owns it and where it's made
Gomez trained in mechanical engineering and materials science and worked on Ariane rocket engines, the Porsche Carrera GT and Rolls-Royce waterjet engines before SAT. Every part is CNC machined and finished in-house and each product is built by hand.
The lineup in this catalog
Turntables. The XD1 is the model listed here.
Who it's for
SAT is for vinyl collectors with a no-limits budget who want an engineering-led arm or a complete reference deck. The usual route in is an LM arm, then a CF1, and finally the XD1 with its own CF1-Ti arm.
