Anyone heard of this???


A buddy and I were discussing old turntables, arms and cartridges the other day. He walked over to his closet and pulled out an old linear track tonearm. The brand name.....Radco (spelling?). He claimed that at one time it was the top tonearm, rated by Stereophile as the best arm on the market. It is probably mid 70's vintage. Anyone heard of it. Anyone owned one or heard it.
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All of the other comments about the Rabco Arm..are true..It iis probably the....
SL-8 Rabco Arm.?..which I owned and used for several years..
It is a "bitch" to set up and to align cartridges with, but
we were willing to do that in those long ago days..But, if
you get this arm, it has a tendency to make a little "buzz"
as the servo engages to correct the arm geometry as it
traces the groove...that "buzz" sometimes would come through
the speakers as a little "zzz" "zzz" as the arm moved. It
was audible in quiet passages of music, but audible at other
times...Some arms were modified to eliminate that...M&K, I
believe, had one of the modifications available at the time
and arms which were sent to them for modification did not
buzz as they moved...Just a word of warning...Lots of fun
to set up if you enjoy this sort of thing, but patience is
required...Try to find the M&K Rabco if you can..There are
not many out there...the rest tend to buzz....