The table looks like a piano and the tonearm looks like a violin bow complete with a bow in the wood. Pretty funky looking set up, including the belts that looks like they aren't lined up correctly.
Does it still need antiskate?
Does it still need antiskate?
Somehow I doubt that this is a good sounding tonearm. Are there any reviews available?
Yes but the mass of the arm increases and puts the cartridge in jeopardy.Holy cow! I assume there is some benefit there as the amount of force it takes to move from track to track is reduced???
These silly long arms are made by people who don't really understand the physics of what is going on, in a bid to reduce the angular distortion found on pivot arms. Much better to go tangental if that is really bothering you. Having a long arm like this puts a load more mass to move, plus I hate to think what resonant modes are pinging back and forth on an arm like this. Colouration must be awful. Tonearms should be zero mass, infinite stiffness and zero friction. So its a tossing game to get as low a mass, with the best stiffness and the lowest friction possible in the real world. Making arms this length makes the arm very low stiffness, high mass and depending on the bearings, because of the weight, higher friction, with loads more bending modes. A nightmare! Even worse are ones made with a violin bow for Pete's sake.. unless of course one likes the sound of vinyl like that.Another long one, from psycho Romy's site.
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