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New Tonearm Release Date 2014
Hello Peter, This time you won't need to shoot the video on the floor of the corridor as last year, thought it was fun too. This time the SAT Pickup Arm will be playing on two rooms at the MOC in Munich: Room F218: - World premier of the amazing Helix1 turntable by Mark Döhmann, designer of... -
What are your thoughts on anti-skating?
Bruce, I don't use dental floss or pellets in the arm so cannot tell you how well they work… Nevertheless, the constant torque approach and the implementation I use certainly provides a CONSTANT torque which can be very accurately adjusted and compensates for the skating torque satisfactory... -
VPI Ring Clamp
Peripheral rings should be made of non-magnetic and HEAVY materials such as copper, brass or austenitic stainless steel, to name a few common ones. I want to emphasise the importance of the mass in this application in order to achieve proper results. The idea is to firmly push the record towards...- SAT
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New King of the Mountain
Not exactly what I meant. Let me say it in another way which should be easier to interpret as I intended: Given a minimum level of performance of the turntable, the arm and cartridge are potentially responsible for far more DISTORTION than is the turntable. An improvement in the performance of...- SAT
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- Forum: Turntables
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New King of the Mountain
Peter, If we managed to swap the same cartridge-arm-cable system to another turntable, like the ones you name, we could detect differences for sure - the more the better the cartridge-arm-cable set is. My point is that these differences would be less evident than mounting different combinations...- SAT
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New King of the Mountain
Peter & Peter, given a certain level of turntable quality and performance, what plays a much bigger role in the final performance of the system are the cartridge and the arm by a big margin. These "king of the mountain" turntables you are talking about here are all massive, with some kind of...- SAT
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Pros and Cons of tonearm with removable headshell?
Mike, very good observations! I am convinced the rigidity of the arm is one of the two main parameters defining its sonic performance. This is obvious from an engineering perspective and dictates how a properly designed arm should look like. As for the continuous cable from cartridge to... -
What are your thoughts on anti-skating?
Anti-skate force is certainly a complex subject though it might seem rather simple. I haven't yet found a scientific paper which can be considered conclusive. Most of the tests conducted to evaluate and measure the skating or drag force are indirect methods - the method itself affects the... -
Schroder lT installed, pics a few comments...
In my opinion, the perceived improvements in sound reproduction of non-pivoted arms are more due to improved structural integrity than the fact they trace with less angular error (if properly set up). Traditionally, highly regarded tangential tonearms have come with shorter arm tubes, higher... -
New Tonearm Release Date 2014
Production parts are being manufactured and gathered for assembling. The engraved scale in the arm pillar and numbers in the dial are now implemented -from 3D CAD model to physical parts. -
New Tonearm Release Date 2014
The SAT is now heading towards Malaysia to meet with the TechDAS Air Force One turntable. This is the actual arm with the dedicated arm board. I have made a simple but effective modification in the height adjustment device and now it is much more user-friendly -it is operated with... -
New Tonearm Release Date 2014
Thank you for welcoming me to WBF, Gary, Myles and Rob! As you may know I am working in preparing production of the SAT and am looking forward to seeing, within a few months, some arms in the hands of someone else than me ;-) -
New Tonearm Release Date 2014
Hi again, I will now address some more specific issues already pointed out in previous posts by some of you in this thread. The arm tube, headshell and yokes are made of carbon fiber laminates, molded in a tool and then CNC-machined. Every single CF component is designed and manufactured... -
New Tonearm Release Date 2014
Hi, I am the man behind the SAT pickup arm. I thought it would be better if I stepped in and make some clarifications about the engineering and features of the SAT. If you have visited the Swedish Analog Technologies website www.swedishat.com, you may have read about the important role I...
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