Linear Tracking versus Pivoted Tonearms: A discussion

[tony22]

Please be patient. We have been analyzing side A since June and haven’t even started with Side B. There are only two tests on the entire record. Any claims to making a “reference” record must stand up to measurement scrutiny. Better if we find the flaws than have someone else do so.

Understandable.

 

[Atmasphere]

We cut our own test record using an analyzed cutting stylus, monitoring the entire cutting and plating process and has it pressed and injection molded at two different plants.

Seems to me this had to be a bit of a trick!

Wouldn't you run the risk of creating a disk that had a unique cutting angle? The only way I can think of getting this right would be to somehow measure the actual rake of the cutter stylus and given that each stylus is unique (and the cutting force exerted by the weight of the cutter head thus being slightly different for each one) this would have taken a fair amount of engineering time and so a lot of patience on the part of the mastering engineer!

 

[J.R. Boisclair]

Seems to me this had to be a bit of a trick!

Wouldn't you run the risk of creating a disk that had a unique cutting angle? The only way I can think of getting this right would be to somehow measure the actual rake of the cutter stylus and given that each stylus is unique (and the cutting force exerted by the weight of the cutter head thus being slightly different for each one) this would have taken a fair amount of engineering time and so a lot of patience on the part of the mastering engineer!

We cut it in Berlin with an engineer we had been doing research with for a couple years and he was perfectly willing to spend the entire day aligning, measuring and cutting.

 

[Atmasphere]

We cut it in Berlin with an engineer we had been doing research with for a couple years and he was perfectly willing to spend the entire day aligning, measuring and cutting.

Nice! Did he charge you for that?? Mastering engineers usually get about the same as a good attorney.

 

[J.R. Boisclair]

Nice! Did he charge you for that?? Mastering engineers usually get about the same as a good attorney.

He was very good to us.

 

[PeterA]

This sounds like a passion project. Sometimes this is how the best gets created. And it sounds like it’s a great internal tool which will lead to more development for JR‘s future projects.

 

[Atmasphere]

This sounds like a passion project. Sometimes this is how the best gets created. And it sounds like it’s a great internal tool which will lead to more development for JR‘s future projects.

If you're doing it for money its never as good; the difference between excellent and mediocre.