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| VPI Direct Drive Turntable Dave, There is no promise of a linear relationship between cost and performance, anywhere in audio or for that matter, anywhere. Even if there were, by what criteria could anyone ever say that one thing is 30X better than another? However, I do th... | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? Halcro, If your Phantom pivots on a red herring, that may be the problem. Especially after a few years, I am sure the sound stinks. | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? Ahh! The Phantom is a unipivot; the others in Halcro's stable are not. Perhaps that's the important factor. I could imagine that a low compliance cartridge might be better suited to a unipivot, compared to a high compliance one. | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? Why would the Phantom fall short with MM cartridges? At first glance, its effective mass would not be wildly different from that of the other three tonearms Halcro mentions. In fact, its effective mass is certainly lower than that of the FR66S, if... | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? Henry, I have had one experience with the same tonearm: it came with a fixed headshell but female RCA outputs. I listened to it for several months, and then I bypassed the RCAs with hard wire so to create a straight path to the phono stage. With a... | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? Henry, It's a perfectionist trade-off. With a removable headshell, you cannot have an uninterrupted connection between the cartridge and the phono stage. My experience suggests that the audible difference is far greater with LOMC cartridges than w... | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? Thanks for taking the time to respond. We rarely benefit from such expert input. With regard to how LPs trigger lateral excitation, I can only think of off-centered ones. Nearly all are imperfect in that regard, to one degree or another. | |
| Decisions, decisions.... Goforth, Insofar as the Linn tt's, in my estimation, tend to make all music sound "good", in a way that masks the fact that on occasion real life music can be startling and even briefly unsettling, you might ask yourself whether the "overly analyt... | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? So, since you may be listening, Frank, I have often heard knowledgeable people argue about the value or lack of value of having high mass in the horizontal plane. For those who do not like the classical linear tracking tonearms, their very high ma... | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? Is it absolutely level? | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? The error in my thinking: Yes, the effective mass is high in the horizontal plane, because of all the paraphernalia necessary for the LT function, but it is only affected by the masses of the arm tube, headshell, (cartridge), and counter-wt, in th... | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? I am wondering how the effective mass can be so low as "14 to 21 gm", which was stated somewhere above. If you think of it, the stylus/cantilever is swinging the whole enchilada all the way back to the stationary pivot that bears the rotating pivo... | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? Thank you, Frank. Unfortunately for my bank account, you've removed one reason for not buying an LT. Congratulations to you for the inherent rightness and simplicity of your idea. You might suggest to Xactaudio that they should explain the presenc... | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? Sorry to be such a blabbermouth on this subject. I saw a full photo of the LT on the Xactaudio website. It seems I was correct in the first place; there is a large cylindrical base, not seen in the videos, within which must reside the bearing for ... | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? Yes, I want one.I wonder whether Frank Schroeder can create a base that would allow other tonearms to operate in the same manner. The problem would be that nearly every commercial tonearm has an offset headshell. The only production arm I know abo... |