On 15/12/2011 16:23, Aaron Levinson wrote:
> Goran-
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> Based on this reasoning isn't that why the linear tracking tonearm was
> arguably the truest playback system of all?
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> AA
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> On 12/15/11 9:10 AM, Goran Finnberg wrote:
>> Mike Biel:
>>
>>> Unless you back-cue, you are better off with the
>>> S-shaped arm.
>>
>> The straight arm gives less wow and flutter.
>>
>> Also it gives less distortion as the S-shaped arm cannot be adjusted
>> to have
>> more than two points of distortion minima and all other places are the
>> tracking distortion much higher.
>>
>> Furthermore a bent arm creates the need for anti skate adjustment.
>> Without
>> it the right channel will distort much earlier than the left channel.
>>
>> Also the cartridge stereo channel separation will become nonsymmetrical
>> without anti-skate adjustment.
>>
>> So on...so on.
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>> Straight line is always better in all respects as it mimics the way
>> the disk
>> was cut.
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>>
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Of course a linear track arm is the nearest approach to the path of the
cutter, but this is not present in the Stanton turntables under
discussion. The point at issue is the difference between a straight
pivoted tonearm without offset, which is a geometrical abomination only
of use to scratchers, and a pivoted arm with the necessary offset for
minimum tracking error, obtained in the Stanton case by use of an S
shaped arm.
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