Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm

I am trying to do my due diligence about this arm. I am just having a hard time getting my head around this idea of zero overhang and no offset. Does this arm really work the way it is reported to do?

neonknight01-29-2023 5:16am

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karl_desch Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 422 posts 01-30-2023 at 05:27pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I had the chance to listen to the 7” version of the Viv as well as the SME 3012 on a friends all Audio Tekne system (table was a TechDas AFV). I will just support that the Viv arms sounded fantastic in this system, nothing to make me think that it is fundamentally flawed. I have had so much musical pleasure with Kuzma and FR-64S arms at home that I am not motivated to change to a Viv, but I can understand why people really like these arms despite the “design rules” they violate.
karl_desch Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 422 posts 01-31-2023 at 05:34pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete To more realistically mimic the tracking geometry of the Viv, you would also have set your cartridge to the correct underhang. Might actually be a fun experiment...
karl_desch Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 422 posts 02-15-2023 at 05:26pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Vive la diffe'rence!
karl_desch Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 422 posts 10-03-2023 at 07:08pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Very cool. All the cartridges you have tried have "advanced" styli (I think) which may require more fastidious alignment to sound their best. At least in a traditional overhung tonearm. In this tonearm, you align the cartridge straight ahead and underhung? Is VTA or azimuth easy to adjust? Are the differences between cartridges the same as you remember from your previous uses or are the differences between them blunted in the Vivid?

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