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Hadcock 242 Series Tone Arms

All arms use the same Stainless Steel arm tube and heat treated alluminium headshells that have recently been redisigned by Charles. Thanks to the their Unipivot design the Hadcock is a light to medium weight tone arm. Spare arm tubes and headshell's are available for all models.

Development of this arm hasn't ceased since Leonard Gregory persuaded the late George Hadcock out of retirement. With Charles taking the reigns of the company in 2007 improvments have been continuing at a pace, and have brought these venerable arms into the 1st century.

To start the 242 range off:

The GH242 Export is the starter arm in the Hadcock range, using pure Oxygen Free Copper this opens up the world of the vinyl user to the benefits of a Unipivot, all at an affordable price. Winner of Hi Fi World Best Tonearm Award 2004.

The GH 242 Export Cryo uses DCT internal wiring and DCT fly leads, and uses a special GH OFC Interconnect to connect arm with preamp, reviews coming soon in HiFi World and TNT Audio, but suffice to say this is now the biggest selling hadcock arm and for very good reason.

The GH 242 Integra formerly the GH 242SE, was our biggest seller until the Cryo family came along. The Integra uses the famous Incognito (Cardas) wiring throughout, offering a stunning sonic performance from the legendary cabling. Check out the review on 6 Moons.

The all new GH 242 Cryo offers the very best of the cable options, extensively tested after true Deep Cryogenic treatment, enhancing cable structure offering a better signal path. George then with his listening panel tried different cable combinations. This was judged the best of them all. The Cryo will not disappoint, and is the ultimate Hadcock 242in our opinion.

The final arm in the 242 range is the GH 242 Super Silver is only available to special order. This is the ultimate arm offered by Hadcock. It utilises Van Den Hul internal silver wiring and fly leads, and a special Super Silver phono cable specially manufactured by The Cartridge Man.

All 242 arm tubes are interchangeable, and the spare headhells allow for easy interchanging of cartridges. Giving the listener the choice of saving that expensive treasured cartridge for special listening sessions, whilst the old favorite can be employed at other times.

Set up of the Hadcock tone arms is a little harder than a fixed pivot arm, however, comprehensive easy to follow instructions are now available on this site and will be included with all new arms The quality of workmanship and finish make it a pleasure to assembly and fine tune. Once a unipivot is fixed and aligned. it will require minimal maintenance if any at all.

The GH 242 is suitable for almost all turntables including SME, Thorens, Michell, Nottingham Analogue, Linn and Origin Live to name but a few.

All arms come with a 1 year warranty against defective workmanship, and advice on cartridge types is freely offered.

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