Little Fwend Tonearm Lifter - Low/High

A great turntable is almost always manual. Little Fwend s mounted on your turntable and set up to trigger a lifting mechanism that raises your tonearm and stylus above the surface of the record after the music inevitably fades out.

Little Fwend is the automatic tonearm lifter with one mission; to save your cartridge from unnecessary wear. 

It does it safely. It does it smoothly. It does it looking good.

Little Fwend has provided turntable-owners with peace of mind since 2015. Some use rare or expensive cartridges they want to keep from unnecessary wear, others just think the sound of the run-out groove is annoying to wake up to. If you are the type that listens to music in a mindful and focused fashion, that is great - but sometimes the disturbances of everyday life, coffee is ready, a drifting thought and - voila….did I turn off the record player at all? Not that we are trying to sow the seed of fear, but raise your hand if you have not once forgot you´re playing a record - or fallen asleep in the listening room.

Worst case scenario (I have experienced this with light tracking cartridges a couple of times). Due to several hours of accumulated dust, there comes a point where this build-up will sneak up between the cantilever tip and the groove and, oops, it looses friction and ends up grinding a track in the paper label (which obviously is very bad for your diamonds future prospects.

Inspired by this servant of the peaceful mind, we set out on a journey to design an automatic tonearm lifter that filled the void - and then some.

We decided early on to get the metal parts machined where they were enthusiastic and cared deeply about high-quality work. That was not possible in Norway at the time, this was before the crash in oil prices, so guess they had butter on the table and couldn´t be bothered. We tried the Swiss watch making industry, but they just laughed. The Germans thought we were too small fish, but the Danes took us in like an orphan on the doorstep. Our Danish precision machining facility used to do tonearm parts for Bang & Olufsen in the 1970s, so we felt the stars were aligned. 

Assembly, hand-tuning of every single unit and quality control is done at the Little Fwend Lab in Oslo, Norway. Our new packaging box come from Sweden, så javisst ja, we’re proudly Made in Scandinavia.

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