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Tonearms — Genuin Audio point
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Genuin Audio point
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The Point is a unipivot tonearm from Genuin Audio, the German company led by Thomas Wendt. Genuin has its components designed by commissioned developers so that they form a complete system, and the Point was created for the brand by Helmut Thiele. It combines a damped carbon arm tube with a reinterpreted unipivot bearing, and at High End Munich it was listed at EUR 3,950.
Key specs that matter
Effective length is 254 mm, the offset angle is 21.6 degrees and overhang is 16.2 mm. An internally damped carbon fibre arm tube carries a bonded aluminium headshell. The Point is supplied on Genuin's Drive turntable, a sub-chassis deck suspended on torsion bars with its own phono amplification.
Engineering and use context
Thiele developed the Point as an evolution of a tonearm he designed in 1978. In a unipivot arm the whole arm rests on a single point, a needle in a cup, which leaves the bearing with almost no play and very low friction in every direction. Here the bearing tip is an adjusting screw with a welded, hardened ball, and the centre of that ball remains the fixed pivot point. The bearing is damped to prevent the tilting typical of unipivot designs. VTA is set by rotating the top of the base, which is guided by an M8 thread and three O-rings. Two low counterweights provide the basic balance and a central weight sets the tracking force. Azimuth is adjusted with a transverse weight, while a thread weight provides anti-skating, acting in the plane of the bearing and the stylus. The thin-walled carbon tube is stiff and light, and its internal damping suppresses tube resonances so they are not passed back to the cartridge. On the Drive, the signal from the Point goes straight to a phono stage built into the turntable itself. This is a Genuin principle, since amplifying the fine MC signal directly behind the tonearm cable avoids two metres of cable before the first gain stage. Genuin was established in 1998 and first showed its complete range at High End 2017, and owners can talk to the commissioned developers at shows.
Pairing
The Point comes with Genuin's EUR 9,950 Drive turntable, and in Munich it was shown fitted with the brand's Sting, a EUR 2,950 nude moving-coil cartridge with no body shell and a built-in magnetic dust cleaner.
Key specs that matter
Effective length is 254 mm, the offset angle is 21.6 degrees and overhang is 16.2 mm. An internally damped carbon fibre arm tube carries a bonded aluminium headshell. The Point is supplied on Genuin's Drive turntable, a sub-chassis deck suspended on torsion bars with its own phono amplification.
Engineering and use context
Thiele developed the Point as an evolution of a tonearm he designed in 1978. In a unipivot arm the whole arm rests on a single point, a needle in a cup, which leaves the bearing with almost no play and very low friction in every direction. Here the bearing tip is an adjusting screw with a welded, hardened ball, and the centre of that ball remains the fixed pivot point. The bearing is damped to prevent the tilting typical of unipivot designs. VTA is set by rotating the top of the base, which is guided by an M8 thread and three O-rings. Two low counterweights provide the basic balance and a central weight sets the tracking force. Azimuth is adjusted with a transverse weight, while a thread weight provides anti-skating, acting in the plane of the bearing and the stylus. The thin-walled carbon tube is stiff and light, and its internal damping suppresses tube resonances so they are not passed back to the cartridge. On the Drive, the signal from the Point goes straight to a phono stage built into the turntable itself. This is a Genuin principle, since amplifying the fine MC signal directly behind the tonearm cable avoids two metres of cable before the first gain stage. Genuin was established in 1998 and first showed its complete range at High End 2017, and owners can talk to the commissioned developers at shows.
Pairing
The Point comes with Genuin's EUR 9,950 Drive turntable, and in Munich it was shown fitted with the brand's Sting, a EUR 2,950 nude moving-coil cartridge with no body shell and a built-in magnetic dust cleaner.
Specifications
Model name
point
Type
Unipivot
Effective mass (g)
N/A
Effective length (mm)
254
Cartridge Balance range (g)
N/A
Offset angle (deg)
21.6
Overhang (mm)
16.2
Weight (g)
N/A
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