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| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm What interests me is that the idea of an overhung pivoted tonearm seems to date back to about 1940, when Lofgren and Baerwald published their solutions to a question which seems to have been how to devise a pivoted tonearm that minimizes tracking ... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Based on manual pushing, pulling, and twisting, I don’t detect much slop in the Viv bearing. None in the fore and aft directions and a teeny bit if you twist with more force than ever occurs naturally during use. I don’t know how this compares to ... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Except where there’s a pre-existing zenith error of > or = 3 degrees. In that case even an overhang may have a >3 degree net TAE error. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I enjoy a spirited exchange, and I do apologize if my responses were offensive. I do appreciate your open-mindedness regarding the tonearm itself or at least my opinion of it. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Red herring. I am not using a spring-suspended TT. In fact, the Lenco is mass loaded and then isolated from below by energy absorbing feet and shelf and stand sitting on a very inert floor. If you are saying that you use a SOTA or other spring-sus... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm But my original point was and is that the arm is heavily weighted, at least 2 lbs, so that when you sit it on a plinth surface that is in turn well coupled to the platter bearing, then there is a sort of coupling. This is not "like a pod" in that ... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm No pod! Pod is an option if you can’t fit it on the plinth surface, for the Nth time I’ve said it. I’m not using a pod. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Dave, on the one particular LP I sampled, 72mm from the spindle is nearly the innermost playable groove. The actual recommended distance of ~90mm from the spindle is at least two-thirds of the way from outermost to innermost on that particular LP.... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm What I was commenting on is the lower limit of the necessary distance between the base of the Viv and the stylus tip, if one wants to level the arm wand, which is 45mm. I neglected to mention that if the base of the arm is situated so that the dis... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm It's good to know you've read all my many posts in which I mentioned that underhung tonearms generate a skating force, except at the null point where.... there is zero skating force, in contradistinction to conventional overhung tonearms which gen... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I think the whole point is that minimizing TAE is not so critical or rather that minimizing skating force is more important. But I will measure the template and see exactly where the null is in mm from spindle. OK. I just measured from the center... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm It’s based on the mounting template provided. IIRC the null point ends up about mid way across the playing surface but I’d have to check. | |
| Annoying trend? New vinyl equalization and compression Most modern day music merits being compressed to the size of the universe before the now hypothetical Big Bang. | |
| TRAVELING TO JAPAN! Recommendations for shops for cartridges? How did you get knives past airport security? Presumably in checked baggage I guess. Decades ago, when I bought a Zerostat in the UK, security at the airport gave me a hard time until I convinced them it was not a gun. | |
| Graham Phantom Elite vs. AS Aquilar Mijo would prefer the original AR XA tonearm over the EPA100, given his druthers. Because the former tonearm more closely adheres to the various tonearm engineering gospels and based on his now 40 years ago listening experiences that took place in... |