Originally Posted by
Primalsea
I’d love to hear a tonearm with a wooden wand. A good hardwood seems like it would have the right combination of stiffness and dampening. I’ve heard that some people think that they can sound a bit flat and dead but I wonder if there is a bit of bias due to preconception from what peple think wood sounds like.
Does anyone know of any manufacturers who pre-stress materials to control their resonant behaviour. I think Rega does something like this on part of their TT bases but wondered if anyone else does.
That always makes me laugh, if it was made of glass it would sound brittle etc etc.
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