Good tip, Stringreen, but there's no reason to suffer any inconvenience.
As I've posted many times, fine tuning VTF is easy on most tonearms. Just slip one or more O-rings onto the end stub, behind the counterweight.
Make sure you buy the right I.D. to fit snugly. Different thicknesses will expand the range you can cover without touching the c/w (or messing up azimuth on those pesky unipivots).
Take rings on or off. Slide them in or out. You can tweak VTF to within a few thousandths of a gram quickly, easily and repeatably. The other night we played our rig for the first time in two weeks. I tweaked VTF four times in the first 2 minutes before nailing it, plus one tweak an hour later after the cartridge had warmed up. None of those adjustments took longer than "cue up - slide a ring in or out a skosh - cue down"; literally a few seconds.
Simple, cheap, effective and no sonic penalty on any rig I've used it on.
As long as there's room on the end stub there should be no need to sacrifice convenient VTF fine tuning to enjoy your tip.
As I've posted many times, fine tuning VTF is easy on most tonearms. Just slip one or more O-rings onto the end stub, behind the counterweight.
Make sure you buy the right I.D. to fit snugly. Different thicknesses will expand the range you can cover without touching the c/w (or messing up azimuth on those pesky unipivots).
Take rings on or off. Slide them in or out. You can tweak VTF to within a few thousandths of a gram quickly, easily and repeatably. The other night we played our rig for the first time in two weeks. I tweaked VTF four times in the first 2 minutes before nailing it, plus one tweak an hour later after the cartridge had warmed up. None of those adjustments took longer than "cue up - slide a ring in or out a skosh - cue down"; literally a few seconds.
Simple, cheap, effective and no sonic penalty on any rig I've used it on.
As long as there's room on the end stub there should be no need to sacrifice convenient VTF fine tuning to enjoy your tip.