The Signature Line · Audio Origami
The PU-8.
Audio Origami’s flagship, built by hand in Glasgow.
Audio Origami’s flagship.
The PU-8 is the result of more than twenty years of Audio Origami’s tonearm design, built one arm at a time in Glasgow by the makers of our Savant Ti. Its gimbal is newly engineered in high-grade stainless steel, with an enlarged Delrin bearing housing and a constrained-layer carbon and aluminum armtube.
Inside runs the second generation of the Meta Material Arm Damping System, floating the Cardas internal wiring away from the armtube’s resonance. In Hi-Fi+, Ed Selley found an airiness and three-dimensionality that the SME he compared it with could not match.
The engineering
01
Stainless steel gimbal.
Stainless steel in the gimbal, pillars and mount adds damping mass where it does not raise effective mass.
02
Carbon and aluminum armtube.
A constrained-layer composite, aluminum inside and carbon outside: stiff, light and well damped.
03
M.M.A.D.S. V2.
The second-generation damping insert floats the internal conductors away from resonance.
04
Improved anti-skate.
Even bias across the whole record, kept clear of the cue lever.
05
For low- to medium-compliance cartridges.
5 to 15 compliance units, the Stratos MC included.
06
Modular.
Future refinements can be fitted to an existing PU-8.
"The SME cannot match the airiness and palpable three dimensionality that the PU8 delivers."Ed Selley, Hi-Fi+ · January 2026 · Read the review ›
