Michael Trei, who opens his thirty-fifth Spin Doctor column with the wry self-description of "turntable setter upper," has made a career of evaluating the kind of precision mechanical hardware that most civilians don't know exists. In his latest installment, the subject is the Supatrac Nighthawk, a British tonearm that departs meaningfully from the pivot-and-bearing orthodoxy that has dominated high-end analog for decades.
Supatrac Nighthawk: A Radically Different Tonearm Gets the Stereophile Treatment
Michael Trei puts the British-made Supatrac Nighthawk through its paces in Stereophile's long-running Spin Doctor column, revealing whether this unconventional tonearm design can justify its considerable ambitions. If you've been watching the tonearm market for something genuinely novel, this one deserves your attention.
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