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In Reply to: RE: you're not going to like what I'm about to say posted by 2002ss335 on August 7, 2012 at 14:51:10:
but I think there's still too much mass/inertia/stiction/ whatever to move in the choice of sealed bearing in the rega arms - whatever their provenance. I don't think this is anything to do with the (obvious) quality of the Audiomods product and if there was one arm that merited upgrading attention then the rega is it. I think it's the original choice of bearing. The sealed bearing in the regas (whatever the flavour) is more suited to more mundane usage. It's the size of the balls, the fact that it needs to be stressed during assembly (of the bearing, not the arm - hence the tolerance issues) the combined mass of the balls and the inner race, whatever is used to lubricate it and the fact that it has seals. It is - in short - a buxom wench - not a ballerina. It's better off at the sharp end of a dremel and not the conducting end of a tone arm.
Now if someone would take a rega arm tube and - say - suspend it on the end of a thread of silk with a magnet at the bottom to keep it from flopping around and add a bottom biased counterweight and change the godawful wiring - then by god you'd have something that would really upset the applecart.
Again - this is just my personal intuition - and is probably worth the pixels it's written on. On the other hand - I have a Dremel, a micrometer and an RB 250. I may try it sometime.
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