Why Linear Tracking never took off?


Popular in the mid-80s...Linear tracking tables have vanished from the scene...what was the rational behind their creation?...Are there any good used tables to consider...or is this design long gone?....thanks...the simplicity of operation intrigues me...
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Willster -

Lets not get too caught up in semantics. 'Linear Tracking' is the right term, as well as 'tangential tracking'. With a linear tracking arm, the cartridge follows a linear motion from the edge of the record to the center, as opposed to the arc of a pivoted tonearm. Hence - Linear.