Tonearm recommendation

....and no mention of a tangential arm in this entire thread.

Just an observation...don't mean to throw gasoline on anybody's embers 'out there'.  It's all preference IMHO, and where that leads you...and leaves you. 

Rauliruegas, re your 2/14 2:19pm post...Yep, agreed.  An air bearing arm, properly set up, in MHO, just seems to have less 'compromises' in play then any pivoted arm.  As to less bass, well, that's one out of how many other observations that can be brought into play. *shrug*  Even the 'less bass' observation may be subject to the cart mounted on the arm, and *horrors* subject to 'perception' and 'taste' in the material being played.

The comments on tonearms, carts, and 'set up' of these seems to be akin to politics in it's ability to rankle and trigger no less than 5 and growing pages of posts just tickles me.  This 'discussion' starts to remind me of the whole 'tar baby effect' in the Middle East.  They've been going on for centuries.  I'm just happy that some of the more 'excitable' posters don't have access to drones.  It gets ugly enough, and it's just pixels on a screen....

Guy shows up, wants to play a friendly game of catch, and some participants start throwing rocks at each other...AGAIN. *sigh*  'Twas always thus...

I'm going to go listen to some music, have a nice cup of tea, and come back to this thread in a week just to see if it finally imploded AG's server.

ct0517...*G*  Due to your 'post experience' (1.5K+), I'll bow to your observation that some other forum will wreak AG Armageddon before this one will.  So I'll back your bet, based on that... ;)

I'll be not so secretly pleased at least that the tangential/air bearing troops have entered this fray with their 'arms drawn.  Even here in the 'cheap seats' it's become as entertaining as a good Middle Ages donnybrook, without all the mess those involved....

Popcorn, anyone? *snicker*

(As the 'Devil's Advocate' that may have triggered the 'counterattack',  Do Not show up at my door with torches and pitchforks.  I have a hose and dogs.  Do Not fashion your tonearms into spears or arrows either.  I have Lexan.  I may just laugh at you and advise you to seek therapy.  I cannot save you.  I can't save myself. {Stabbing Westward, 'Save Yourself'})

Carry on, y'all. *S*

ct...Oil? South.  For the time being, anyway.  The low prices @ the pump simply forestalls our being weaned from the stuff before it becomes rare.  HO:  It'll attain that just about the time the climate really gets everyone's attention, which is when it'll be too late to respond in our species' typically late and lame fashion.  But at that point you and I should be 'comfortably numb'...i.e., Dead...

"A poker game..."  *L*  Sometimes acts like a slamdance, opinions clashing like broadswords, ergo my Middle Ages ref.  As my ears have aged and don't respond to the extremes on nuance anymore, I've tempered my drive to new/newer/newest and resorted to what intrigues or amuses me.  My 'system' has become less 'hi-end', more 'test bed', constrained by budget.

I've been fortunate to have been exposed to things beyond my grasp, to at least experience and learn from that exposure.  I have my own opinions, some not so humble about it all.  I only 'air' them when either asked or at random 'knee-jerk' moments when the muse ice picks a tender spot...*S*

Mexico?  Sounds good to moi'.  GTF outta town, show up @ t'door. ;)  Worse that could happen is to sleep in the car...but you'd be warm. *G*

Leave the tone arm(s) @ home...unless you transport them in one of those alum cases with the foam inserts, like some exotic weaponry.  Which, considering the posts about and above us, gets kinda close...*smirk*

Cheers...