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Apr 28, 2009	Will SME-V, etc benefit with non-stock alignment? Hello Axel,it comes down to a simple statement:- if you want to use a cartridge which does NOT comply with IEC-standard dimensions: get an individual tractor.- if you use a cartridge with IEC standard dimensions - use the SME tool. The SME V can't...
Apr 28, 2009	Will SME-V, etc benefit with non-stock alignment? Dear Axelwahl, dear all, Dougdeacon posted an extremely precise and knowledgeable comment on my similar post which I believe belongs here.Please see here:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1240903165
Apr 28, 2009	SME V tonearm - abnormalities in alignment ? Dear Dougdeacon, I 100% agree with you on all points.Thank you for your very detailed and precise comments.I started this thread for Axelwahl - so to get the discussion away from my earlier thread which showed some tendency to concentrate on the S...
Apr 28, 2009	Will SME-V, etc benefit with non-stock alignment? The SME V can ONLY be precisely aligned with either cartridges which do 100% comply with IEC standard stylus-mounting holes OR with a special tractor calculated on a given cartridge like the MINT tractor. And this will only work for a given sample...
Apr 28, 2009	Tracking error distortion audibility Dear Axel, as for your quote:"""""A lot of folks don't want to know the details of their car's differential gear, but simply use it.So, that said, it might make a case for Linn and SME's non-variable approach.I'm also not really sure if a very 'fu...
Apr 27, 2009	Geometry for pivot tonearms - calculation errors?? Dear Axel, dear Raul, - I am very familiar with teh AT-180 ML and I want to support Raul's recommendation of thsi particular cartridge. It is outstanding - a very serious contender for most of the $1k to $3k of todays high-flight MCs.It should wor...
Apr 27, 2009	Geometry for pivot tonearms - calculation errors?? Dear Lewm,the SME 300 series (including SME V and IV) is one of the very few tonearms which does come with a kind of "fixed" geometry in ALL parameters. Given its unability to adjust offset, overhang (we can just move the base - which we shouldn't...
Apr 27, 2009	Tracking error distortion audibility Dear Raul, yes, the analog world is an imperfect one and will always be.I just think that in tose few areas where we do have pure sientific parameters - teh geometry - we should try to use them for the very best results and should follow them as s...
Apr 27, 2009	Graham 2.2 vs. Fidelity Research FR64S Dear Jw61, agreed with Prcinka.I love the FR-64s tonearm and believe it still is today one of the very best pivot tonearms. If I were going for a tonearm to guide low to mid-low compliance cartridges it would ALWAYS be the FR-64s. Todays industry ...
Apr 27, 2009	Tracking error distortion audibility Dear Axel, the SME 300 series is one of the very few tonearms which does come with a kind of "fixed" geometry in ALL parameters. Given its unability to adjust offset, overhang (we can just move the base - which we shouldn't... - NOT the cartridge ...
Apr 26, 2009	Geometry for pivot tonearms - calculation errors?? Dear Raul, - let me put it in a few "axioms":1) offset, overhang and effective length do relate to each other and CAN be CHANGED WITHOUT changing the PIVOT-BEARING DISTANCE. Offset, overhang and effective length do change when you align to a diffe...
Apr 26, 2009	Tracking error distortion audibility Dear All, I do agree with Raul on most of what he said in his last post.However - let me put it in a few "axioms":1) offset, overhang and effective length do relate to each other and CAN be CHANGED WITHOUT changing the PIVOT-BEARING DISTANCE. Offs...
Apr 26, 2009	Graham 2.2 vs. Fidelity Research FR64S Dear Jw61, with the given cartridge - Clavis DC - I would go for the Graham 2.2. The compliance of the Clavis will match much better with the comparatively low effective moving mass of the Graham. I owned the Graham 2.2 once and have owned the FR-...
Apr 26, 2009	LP eccentricity, spindle hole center,The fix?????? Dear Raul, dear all, - I think the best way to start would be a foundation here on Audiogon. A kind of "Audiogon quality record collectors society" (...which is just meant as an analoghy - not my propolsal for a name for this group or society...)....
Apr 26, 2009	Tracking error distortion audibility Dear Peter,we have to mate either tonearm with a cartridge with perfectly suitable compliance, - if done so, there will be no trade off in moving mass vs. effective length.Given an ideal match with the compliance of the cartridge, we can assume al...