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Tonearm adjustments on the fly

I've looked in the archives, but as yet I have yet to find a devoted thread on this topic. I was wondering which tonearms allow for easy adjustments of VTA, SRA, azimuth, and such on the fly, i.e. without having to go through a lot of effort to make changes, like unscrewing a tonearm from the mount in order to raise the tonearm, etc. I know that Reed tonearms allow for this, but what other ones do?
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TransFi Terminator is a possibility. It’s a linear tracking hybrid: air bearing for horizontal, pivot for vertical.

VTA is easily adjusted on the fly. Beam horizontality is easily adjusted on the fly - and this is also a small azimuth adjustment. Large azimuth adjustments are a pain, but intuitive; ditto tangentiality, ditto VTF. All adjustments are reasonably stable and repeatable.

Low pressure air means no messy air supply maintenance.

So for a little pain and $1k you can have an instrument which competes with anything that costs less than a new car. IMO. I have two in an ESL based system, running a Koetsu and a Miyajima.
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