Tone Arm Scheu Tacco

The Scheu Tacco is our top model with the conical wooden tone arm wand made of either thuja cedar or amboina pine (or others on request). Apart from ensuring maintenance of all the familiar geometric parameters, the development of the equipment also concentrated on fastidious choice of materials. Thus the actual bearing/counterweight unit is made of tungsten, allowing not only a compact design concentrating all the free-to move mass into a condensed space but also the effective suppression of resonance inside the bearing unit thanks to the high density of the metal. The actual wand of the tone arm is manufactured as a compound unit comprising wood in connection with aluminium and carbon fibre.

This method of construction means that all kinds of stored energy can be eliminated quickly and effectively.

The Tacco tone arm has a unipivot bearing. The tip of the bearing is a ruby sphere at the end of a hard metal rod. The bearing recess is set into the bearing block and is made of a leuko- (white) sapphire. This arrangement leads to extremely little internal friction and, in addition, the contact surface is well-defined, eliminating any shifting of the point of the bearing. The Tacco is currently available as a 9-inch variant. The effective length is 238 mm with an effective mass in the range from 14 to 16 grams, depending on the wood employed. The Tacco is characterised by its very clear and well-contoured sound reproduction with highly pure bass and an outstandingly fine reproduction of treble. Voices are reproduced in extremely natural fashion.