doverIt’s not a claim, it is science. Less tracking error means there are less phase errors, less phase errors result in a more accurate reproduction of harmonics and more accurate phase and time, resulting in a more accurate and transparent soundstage.
The science is indisputable, of course. Tracking error is measurable and the geometry is actually pretty simple.
... as long as there is tracking error your soundstage reproduction is compromised for the above mentioned reasons.
Do you realize that your favored Eminent Technology ET2 is also subject to tracking error?
millercarbon Every pivoted arm as it swings across a record has two points at which it is perfectly tangential.
Underhung arms have also been discussed here. They are tangential at only one point along the arc as the arm swings across the disc. Yet some who have heard them praise their sonics, suggesting achieving fidelity from a pickup arm involves much more than just reduction of tracking error.
... Every record, as its played the sound stage will become more and more transparent and accurate, then less and less, then more and more again. If its such a big important difference then everyone would notice ... Is that the case? Not at all. In fact it seems the only people talking about this at all are promoting linear tracking arms as being so great - at solving this problem no one else cares or even knows about.
That pretty much sums it up.
It would be interesting if
@dover ever auditions an underhung arm. I plan to do that when the Covid era ends - just out of curiosity. I’m happy with my conventional pivoted arm.
