Rigid Float Tonearm Series

AS THE WORLD FIRST OIL FLOATING TONEARM


Rigid float tone arm is floating on the oil.

OIL FLOATED PIVOT
ViV laboratory’ s original “OIL FLOATED PIVOT” gives perfect bearing performance and insulates the arm pipe from the vibration via floor or turntable. The “PIVOT” shuts out the reflection of vibration affected to the stylus. As the result, the sound gives the highest purity with dynamics, sharp focus and very low distortion. No audience has ever experiensed such a sound with vinyl disks.


↑Floating demo(Youtube)

STRAIGHT ARM
In general, elbowed shaped tonearms with offset angle with overhang setting affect to the sound quality seriously. The side force fluctuation can never be canceled by anti-skating machanism. Therefore, Viv laboratory choose completely straight (i.e. NO OFFSET-ANGLE) tonearm structure. To compare with elbowed shaped tonearms, straight arms give tracking error a little bigger, but the sound is much better. You can hear no distortion even with short-arm 7” model.

JUST PUT ON YOUR TURNTABLES
Rigid Float is very easy to install to turntables. You do not need to drill your turntable plinth nor lift up heavy turntable to screw. Just put it anywhere on your turntable plinth even on outside the plinth.

 

Internal cable wiring
Rigid Float use silk covered 4N pure siver line with cryogenic treatment inside of tonearm. Internal resistance less than 0.1, extremely low, withdraw the low impedance cartridge performance excellent.

Others
Head-shell exchangeable (Universal type)
RCA OUTPUT with independent Ground pin for Balance output
Azimuth adjustment function

RCA OUTPUT + GROUND +Azimuth adjustment

Can be install heavy cartridge up to 50g
Arm lifter
ViV Laboratory original head shell “Nelson Hold” bundled.
Black Gold or Black Metallic

 

Rigid Float Tonearm spec by products

Rigid Float CB7
Rigid Float CBCB7CB9CB13
Arm pipe materialCarbon fiverCarbon fiverCarbon fiver
Active length209mm259mm359mm
Effective length227mm274mm370mm
Overhang-18mm-15mm-11mm
Height of arm center57~77mm57~77mm57~77mm
Offset corner0 degree0 degree0 degree
WeightApprox.2KgApprox.2KgApprox.2Kg

 

Rigid Float Ha
Rigid Float HaHa7Ha9Ha13
Arm pipe materialAluminumCoated AluminumCoated Aluminum
Active length209mm259mm359mm
Effective length227mm274mm370mm
Overhang-18mm-15mm-11mm
Height of arm center57~77mm57~77mm57~77mm
Offset corner0 degree0 degree0 degree
WeightApprox.2KgApprox.2KgApprox.2Kg

Product review Black Forest Audio Germany (English)

Rigid Float tone arm review by analog fellowship 

 

Instruction video(in German)

 

ViV Laboratory Brochure download

Rigid float tone arm instruction manual

 

↑Arm position drawing           ↑Arm drawing