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| ???Cartridge break in??? That has always been my suspicion, Nandric. "Break-in" is the period during which you can gradually forget what you had before that might have sounded better or just as good, before you spent your big bucks. But that's the cynical view, I guess. | |
| Why Do 12" Tonearms Cost So Much More Than 9"? In my opinion, having heard a few of them, the Schroeder tonearms are indeed very good and very competitive at their price points, but not necessarily better than all of the competitors at those price points. The LT is desirable for someone like ... | |
| Why Do 12" Tonearms Cost So Much More Than 9"? Cleeds, I am not sure what you are thinking, but just to be as anal as possible, I need to say that pivoting per se is not the cause of the skating force. The skating force is first of all due to the friction between stylus and groove; I am sure ... | |
| Why Do 12" Tonearms Cost So Much More Than 9"? As regards your intimation that a pivoted tonearm per se generates a skating force, that is not really correct, if you consider that an underhung tonearm, at the one point on the surface of the LP where the stylus is tangent to the groove, generat... | |
| Why Do 12" Tonearms Cost So Much More Than 9"? Show me a pivoted tonearm that has a fixed zero headshell offset at all points across the surface of an LP, and I will usually show you an underhung tonearm. Underhung tonearms do generate a skating force, along with lots of tracking angle error,... | |
| Why Do 12" Tonearms Cost So Much More Than 9"? Uberwaltz, The analogy you gave for why measuring errors are magnified in proportion to distance is exactly what I have in mind as a reason why errors made in mounting 12-inch tonearms might be more consequential than errors made in mounting 9-inc... | |
| Why Do 12" Tonearms Cost So Much More Than 9"? Cleeds makes a good point that I’d never considered. Any of these fancy pivoted tone arms that incorporate a device to keep the stylus tangent to the groove at all points across the surface of the LP would nevertheless generate a skating force. In... | |
| Why Do 12" Tonearms Cost So Much More Than 9"? Forgot to say to Elliot, that Blackbird tonearm is "controversial" to say the least. You might have asked here about it before taking the leap. I think Chakster has some info. I hope you'll be happy with it. | |
| Why Do 12" Tonearms Cost So Much More Than 9"? Mijo, Your objection to the rumor I repeated is noted, but I need to see and/or do the math before you can convince me. Some pretty obsessive tonearm alignment persons on the internet have claimed the opposite of what you say. My guess is that i... | |
| ???Cartridge break in??? Alright, who is digging up threads from 2003? Are we THAT bored? I miss going out to jazz clubs and concerts and good restaurants and meeting with friends, just as much as the next guy, but was 2003 that good a year for threads on Audiogon? I h... | |
| Tube myths Fletch, I am amused by the idea that you were offended by Newbee's post written in 2003 and then waited 17 years to make your displeasure known here. You must be really pissed. But I am glad to note you are still around. | |
| Direction on my next upgrade Take any advice you like best from this smorgasbord, but don't spend money on Synergistic Research tweaks, as Millercarbon suggests you do. Most of those tweaks are "controversial", at best, in terms of actual benefits. I am not saying categoric... | |
| Why Do 12" Tonearms Cost So Much More Than 9"? It has been said that a tiny error in setting up a 12 inch arm has greater consequences for tonearm alignment error, than the same error made in setting up a 9 inch arm. I actually have never bothered to investigate the truth of this axiom, but it... | |
| Phono Cartridge for $1,000. "Air core" refers to a coil wound around nothing but air. So far as I know, the ART7, which I own and like very much, has an "amorphous core" Amorphous metal is an alloy with a non crystalline structure produced by ultra-rapid quenching (about 1 ... | |
| Why Do 12" Tonearms Cost So Much More Than 9"? Because they can. |