Share your real knowledge on cartridge arm matchin


"Gonners" have real knowledge on cartridge parameters to arm matching. Share the reasons the match works well so we can learn something new. Make the best tone arm match for these cartridges:

Air Tight PC-1
Clearaudio (their top cartridge - name escapes me now)
Dynavector DRT XV-1S or mono
Koetsu Stone Bodies
Lyra Titan
Miyabi/47

BTW: If I missed your favorite cartridge add it and the matching tone arm.
gerrym5

Showing 1 response by johnnyb53


05-01-08: Rauliruegas
Gerry, I'm sorry I can't help you with a precise answers on what you are looking for.
Uh, yes you could.

You're the guy with the multiple turntables, tonearms, headshells, and cartridges. Surely you've tried enough arm/headshell/tonearm/turntable combinations to come up with a few that are particularly synergistic. You've just expounded on how there are so many variables that the math can only take you so far. That means that experimentation takes you the rest of the way, which is something you claim to have done extensively over decades transcending various philosophies of design and materials engineering.

Care to share anything besides how complicated it all is? The rest of us manage to take a pivoting stick, a needle, and a platter, scratch it across a disk of plastic and get music to come out that moves us to smile, dance, or weep.

How 'bout you?