All of us who were born in the second half of the twentieth century grew up listening to the music from the record player (turntable).

The first children’s songs in the kindergarten, the first songs in the Music classes at school, all events and parents’ house parties…and then adolescence "A Hard Day’s Night” of the legendary "Beatles” and track A5 "And I Love Her”.

Those of us who were just starting to learn English, would look up the words in thick dictionaries trying to translate all of the lyrics, but the song title and chorus would be an earworm and easy to translate. "And I Love Her”.  Deep in love with a freckled girl of my age, who was in love to the ears with a long-haired Marko from high school, who wore jeans and would play a few chords on the guitar for his company in the park. Yes, in love to the ears, we would go to "music and dance evenings” organized once or twice a month in the school lobbies in our small town in order to be in the vicinity of the curls jumping to the music of The Doors, Deep Purple, ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, waiting for the band to play a slow dance tune.

The tenths of a millimeter turned into microns, and the tolerances were perfect. Together with the company co-owner and designer, he designed a dental motor of 300000 rpm, which had to be manufactured without a single deviation from the required characteristics. Everybody has been in the dental practice, and has never forgotten the sound of the dental
drilling-boring-grinding-polishing machine. Such motors and devices were made by Slobodan.

Hawk’s motto is "The quality has no alternatives”. That’s what still makes him different from everybody else./ And he still sticks to it.

All this has nothing to do with the record player?

You are wrong!

About a decade ago, Slobodan bought a few small ultra-precision machines and started his own business, manufacturing mechanical components to an order (tailored manufacture).
Meanwhile, the life has changed, including music styles and needs, but the record player still rotates a record, playing "Shine Of You Crazy Diamond”.

A great many fans of record player have come to Slobodan to ask him to manufacture a replacement for worn-out components, repair tone arms or reconstruct/redesign and manufacture components and parts of reel to reel machines and cassette decks.

In his free time, listening to music, Slobodan took up another hobby: railway modeling. The manufacture precision was a skill acquired at work. The photos that you are looking at are from the model whose total size is 1x1.8 m. The grass, trees, lake and waves - INCREDIBLE. He did not give up his motto even in his hobby: THE QUALITY HAS NO ALTERNATIVES.

However, as he says, without music and the record player, he could have never made that all, and therefore he makes a break to "change a record”.

And thus, having spent years repairing record players and tone arms of various manufacturers, he realized what he could improve, and five years ago, he designed a unique tone arm Supreme Analog Tangenta.

A lot of audiophiles have read about that tone arm, but another man declared to be the designer and manufacturer of this tone arm, but that is not the topic of this story. The designer and the manufacturer was Slobodan Petrovic - Hawk.

After four years of unfulfilled promises and "an idle stroke” or standby, in January 2020, Slobodan Petrovic - Hawk terminated cooperation with the seller/dealer who had not fulfilled his promises, and he designed a new tone arm Tangenta II, a model superior to Supreme analog Tangenta.