The Funk Firm Houdini Cartridge Decoupler

Houdini works like magic, creating an invisible barrier that stops harmful arm vibrations in their tracks. By decoupling your cartridge from these destructive forces, Houdini allows your stylus to track with unprecedented precision, revealing musical details you never knew existed.

The Funk Firm Houdini Cartridge Decoupler

The Houdini represents a breakthrough in turntable technology - a precision-engineered cartridge decoupling device that eliminates the damaging arm vibrations that rob your records of their true musical potential.

Three years of analysis and modelling showed that “best practise” of firmly bolting cartridge-to-arm is compromising. With arm and cartridge “as-one”, each time you change the arm, the sound changes. Thus, all arms influence the cartridge. We can’t ever win…and certainly to date we haven’t. (That being the case, then using 3 bolts is even worse) If only we could remove the arm’s effects and support the cartridge correctly, that would leave only the sound of the cartridge.

How? Enter Houdini. In its tiny volume, just 6mm deep is a patented suspension system plus a “torsion-tether”. The result? Unparalleled isolation. With Houdini “The problem you never knew you had” disappears. Houdini has actually freed the genie.

Houdini is available in 2 variants, ‘Threaded’ and ‘Bolted’. For threaded (captive thread M2.5 which is fixed from above) cartridges and bolted (lugged cartridges with usually the need of a bolt and nut to fix) type cartridges respectively.