With Arko, Linn has gone back to basics, stripping away all non-essential elements of tonearm design and focusing on the core fundamentals to create a simple yet superlative tonearm. The Arko features an ultra-stable gimbal platform that facilitates superb bearing concentricity and alignment, resulting in improved depth, impact, and emotion conveyed. The arm wand travels in space with minimum hindrance, while the affixed cartridge moves with the warps and grooves of the record with finesse and fluidity. The arm wand assembly is made entirely of 7075-grade aluminum, from the headshell to gimbal, resulting in superb resonant behavior and effective coupling that banishes undesirable resonances away from the delicate generator and out through the sub-chassis. The Arko also features a machined headshell with weight reduction pockets for increased agility, a cold-drawn 7075 aluminum arm tube produced to exceedingly high tolerances and accuracy, and a machined stainless-steel counterweight that decreases arm wand inertia. The single-piece, polished stainless-steel through-spindle provides improved alignment and stability.