September 2026 · Malcolm Bool
Calculating the effective mass of the Clear Wave tonearm
The Clear Wave's effective mass is 11.3 grams. Fit the ceramic headshell spacer and it becomes 13.7 grams. Clearly this is not the weight of the arm which weighs 176 grams.
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August 2026 · Phil Bool
A cartridge database & a loading calculator
Yesterday's resonance calculator has grown into a small tools section. There are two additions.
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August 2026 · Phil Bool
A VTA calculator & an alignment calculator
Two more calculators went up this afternoon, which rounds out the tools section for now. One deals with arm height, the other with alignment geometry.
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August 2026 · Phil Bool
A cartridge resonance calculator
There's a new tool on the site. Pick your cartridge from a list of 66, or type two numbers off its spec sheet, and it tells you where the cartridge resonates on the Clear Wave, or...
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May 2026 · Phil Bool
How the Clear Wave Came to Be
From a Lenco and a Lathe The Clear Wave didn't begin as a business plan. It began as a question: could a unipivot tonearm as good as the Naim Aro actually be made by hand, at...
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May 2026 · Phil Bool
Building the Tools to Build the Tools
Building the machine Before a single tonearm part could be made, we needed a machine capable of making it. That meant building one. Space in our workshop rules out most options.
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May 2026 · Phil Bool
Soundlink Secrets
Silver-Plated Copper Litz Wire in the Clear Wave Tonearm A moving coil cartridge puts out a few hundred microvolts.
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