New tonearm

[Marco]

John Ruskin summed it up nicely, "The bitterness of poor quality lingers long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten".

Ha - I like that and totally agree!

Marco.

[29029]

Price is of the 'if you have to ask' type;a technically clever design though.

Price - yes it's costly. But expensive and satisfying (sonically, visually and engineering) has to be better than not-quite-as-expensive but unsatisfying?

The design is clever and works - amazing to watch and to hear, it tracks properly right across the record. The best bits of a linear tracker without the pumps, etc.

For those who don't know much about Thales - read here:

http://www.tonarm.ch/index.php?page=simplicity

[daytona600]

like avantegardes myself but same problem there just to big for my flat & bit pricey
can,t wait for my new mini full range horns to arrive with active bass
should be here in about 6weeks

[RobbieGong]

Very very nice Lee, Bet it sounds amazing with the A90 on board ( A cart for dreamers like me )

[29029]

can,t wait for my new mini full range horns to arrive with active bass should be here in about 6weeks

Oooh and what might these be?! I have seen something like this promoted heavily by someone on forums - called BD Audio i think? He seems to be combining being a contributor but really promoting his own goods?!

[29029]

Very very nice Lee, Bet it sounds amazing with the A90 on board ( A cart for dreamers like me )

Cheers - the A90 is very special. I have had so may carts incl stone body Koetsu's, Miyabi, XV1s, etc etc - the A90 is probably (for me) the one i like the most - but it is not for everyone - it is very ruthless and revealing.

[Barry]

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.

[jason]

Nice bit of kit Lee...

Jason

[Theo]

New arm arrives - as does new member - greetings!

I LOVE the idea of that arm! Would like to try one on my L-07D...

[29029]

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'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.