Another pivoting tangential tracking tonearm
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Another pivoting tangential tracking tonearm Jul 2, 2017 15:33:55 GMT 12
- Edited Jul 2, 2017 15:35:15 GMT 12 by michaelw
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Post by Owen Y on Jul 2, 2017 15:52:51 GMT 12
Any new tonearm design is interesting but IMHO, skating/antiskating is at least as important, if not moreso, than tracking accuracy....
Most vinyl enthusiasts happily enjoy their music using regular pivoted tonearms, despite significant tracking error/distortion - which suggests that these small amounts of tracking error are sonically tolerable (ref Bill Firebaugh). This design has an offset headshell => skating force (that is continuously varying across the record). Does it incorporate continuously variable anti-skating? That would need to begin as outward force & end up as inward force? Just saying 
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Another pivoting tangential tracking tonearm Jul 2, 2017 19:29:57 GMT 12
- Edited Jul 2, 2017 19:38:40 GMT 12 by Owen Y
deano1974 likes this Post by Citroen on Jul 2, 2017 19:29:57 GMT 12
A lot of engineering seems to have gone into this arm. Looks great.
 
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Post by Owen Y on Jul 2, 2017 19:46:06 GMT 12
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 Post by deano1974 on Jul 2, 2017 20:00:58 GMT 12Wow what an amazingly beautiful tonearm, superb engineering Manager & Product specialist at Rapallo AV & HI-FI
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Post by Owen Y on Jul 2, 2017 20:19:54 GMT 12
There are some vague visual similarities to the Tri-Planar tonearm:
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Post by michaelw on Jul 3, 2017 10:32:45 GMT 12
more like ....
 
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Post by guitardude on Jul 3, 2017 13:52:32 GMT 12
I was waiting for someone to mention that one. Am surprised none of you old guys have posted a photo of a Worden ?
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Post by michaelw on Jul 3, 2017 17:04:27 GMT 12
couldn't find a decent pic
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Post by foveaux on Jul 3, 2017 18:51:44 GMT 12
KLaudio tonearm - lovely and interesting engineering. But... many moving parts = too many opportunities for compromised tolerances? (or do they in combination make for exemplary shock-absorption?)
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Post by Owen Y on Jul 3, 2017 19:35:21 GMT 12
Yup, my feeling too, about these hinged parallelogram tonearms, compromised rigidity.
Decoupling maybe, but Effective Mass could be potentially decoupled from the cartridge to some degree. However, the proof is always in the listening. DarkLantern blog - darklanternforowen.wordpress.com
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Another pivoting tangential tracking tonearm Jul 3, 2017 19:49:03 GMT 12
- Edited Jul 3, 2017 19:50:04 GMT 12 by michaelw
Post by michaelw on Jul 3, 2017 19:49:03 GMT 12
rigidity and mass rules the grooves.
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