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RE: Are you sick to death of hearing about "alignment null points" and "pivot to spindle distance"?

Hi
I hear you... wouldn't it be nice to have a "perfect" no setup effort system? Well that was called CD in its day! The only other turntable that is ALMOST fuss free is the ELP laser turntable.
That link certainly points to an unusual bit of engineering albeit quite expensive!! Unfortunately, those "offensive" words still apply even to this arm :) This arm as with conventional linear tracking arms still require the words "offset" and "overhang" to be considered and will be just as vulnerable to errors in both those parameters (which for LT arms should be zero for both parameters of course!). With my MCs (of which I have several), only 2 out of the 8 I own actually have the motor assembly aligned squarely with respect to the body. So if I were to try and mount those in this arm, I would still have to work out the compensating twist. Also the specification for stylus distance with respect to the mounting holes differs from cartridge to cartridge, so one still needs to use an Alignment tool (oops I just used the A word!!!). So unfortunately there is no getting around the futzing.....

Regards Anthony

"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats


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