VPI JMW 9 is a straight 9-inch unipivot tonearm in aluminium and steel
JMW 9 is a straight tonearm with a unipivot bearing and a metal headshell integrated into the wand. It is supplied as the wand alone: fitting it to a turntable requires the JMW-VTA base.
Internal wiring is VPI copper weave and the arm connects through a Limo connection. The adjustments provided are the adjustable dropped counterweight, the side weights for azimuth and VTA.
- Bearing: unipivot
- Internal wiring: VPI copper weave
- Pivot-to-spindle distance: 223 mm
- Effective length: 240.7 mm
- Effective mass: 10.2 g
- Overhang: 17.7 mm
- Offset angle: 22.85 degrees
- Stated average RMS distortion: 0.36%
- Materials: aluminium and steel