New tonearm

[Barry]

Yes i'm aware of the history - perhaps not unique in design ethos, but unique in terms of accuracy, quality of engineering and on sale!

It works - and having done A/B dems with conventional arms, it became very clear that I had to go this route - obv a very expensive decision, but once heard, there was no going back.

The build quality is vastly superior to that of the Garrard Zero 100 arm! (And looks better.)

[YNWaN]

An interesting arm design. Not unique, Garrard did much the same with their 'Zero 100' arm some forty years ago, which like yours, was based on the even earlier Burne-Jones 'pantograph' geometry.

Having recently spent some time looking at the deviation from tangential tracking by pivoted tonearms, an angular error of +/- 0.008 degree is impressive (compared with a typical angular error of 2 degree of most 9" tonearms, at the outermost edge of a 12" LP). However I wonder if this comes at a cost of rigidity: the cartridge has to have movable, pivoted (and thus non-rigid) coupling to the two arms of the pantograph.

Yes, I too have looked at the comparative geometry issues. However, as you suggest, there's no free lunch.

[29029]

Yes, I too have looked at the comparative geometry issues. However, as you suggest, there's no free lunch.

Yeah it's an expensive lunch - but it is very tasty!

[sq225917]

Any chance of a shot of the business end of the arm, I understand how it works but without seeing the bearing pillar side of things I can't close that mental loop required to file it away in my brain. Cheers.

[YNWaN]

He seems to be combining being a contributor but really promoting his own goods?!

Yes, there's a lot of that sort of thing on the various forums, from dealers. distributors and their friends.