Are you bringing your turntable to NEBO, Ken?
Edit (later) ... I see from the NEBO thread, that you are ... excellent!
Are you bringing your turntable to NEBO, Ken?
Edit (later) ... I see from the NEBO thread, that you are ... excellent!
Last edited by petrat; 24-04-2017 at 13:48.
Peter - Yes, as you spotted.
My Denon DL-301 mkII crapped out, when the cantilever just fell out.
So I am using a pre owned Ortofon MC20 Supreme at present, nice cartridge.
To be played through a Pro-Ject Phono Box RS/Pre Box RS, my semi active crossovers/Nakamichi Power Amp and three way speakers.
The later is all a work in progress, but sounding pretty damn good for a lash up.
Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house
Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck
System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.
Imo most turntables come with a nine inch arm to keep the footprint down to a reasonable size.
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Parallel trackers are fine in theory, but invariably involve more complications and issues than a pivoted arm. I am yet to hear a parallel tracker that was actually a good tonearm, so for me it's a question of balancing the various technical compromises and those are far easier to reconcile with a pivoted arm.
Here's an interesting take on the issue - a pivoted tonearm that tracks like a parallel tracker, without any articulating linkages in the armtube or headshell:
I hear this often, but no one will define what the complications or issues are.
A parallel tracker has far fewer issues to overcome in my opinion.
The whole null point compromise, bearing friction and anti skate requirement of a pivoting arm, don't exist on an air bearing linear tracker.
Low end pivoting arms are cheap to produce and that's about it. By the time you get to a decent quality pivoting arm, there is little difference in cost between the types.
The engineering principles of my linear tracker are far simpler than your average pivoting arm.
http://www.trans-fi.com/terminatortonearm.htm