Tonearms longer than 12 inches


I'm curious to hear anyone's speculations on the
future of tonearm developement. What could be improved ?
As well, what lengths could we reasonably expect to see
in a pivoting arm ? 14 inch ? 16 inch ?
noslepums

Showing 1 response by buconero117

Long ago, and not often remembered is that 16 inch acetate disks were in use for recording use, so you needed a 16 inch arm. The disc cutter TT and arm could, of course, play anything below that. I had such a unit when I got interested in doing direct to disc recording. I did not have any SOTA electronics at that time so I can't comment on the quality of the sound produced. My 'sound' memory has lost all remembrance. Were talking late fifties. I am sure there is 16 inch units out there and they would be fun to play with.