Not to beat a dead horse but when I questioned wood as a to earl material it was pointed out that metal also expands and contracts w temp change. Assuming (big jump) a competent designer I cools not agree more; it's all implementation. And design trade offs of which there are many.
New $35K pivoting tonearm
Vertere Audio is Touraj Moghaddam cofounder of Roksan.
It has some interesting features including aligning the pivots to the offset angle rather than the arm tube, and bearings that don't rotate, made out of polymer-metal laminate film. Has 240mm effective length.
www.vertereacoustics.com/news
Click on the PDF link near the top.
This came up on Audio Circle and somebody said it sounds good. I certainly hope so. Anybody else?
Regards,
It has some interesting features including aligning the pivots to the offset angle rather than the arm tube, and bearings that don't rotate, made out of polymer-metal laminate film. Has 240mm effective length.
www.vertereacoustics.com/news
Click on the PDF link near the top.
This came up on Audio Circle and somebody said it sounds good. I certainly hope so. Anybody else?
Regards,