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

OK! Point taken sorry :)
Well the short answer is that I don't think it is any different to a normal pivoted arm in terms of "difficulty" in setup. Perhaps you might get a more accurate setup quicker than a pivoted arm.
A conventional linear tracker has the same issue. However, if you get the setup right, this arm should in principle (in my opinion) be better than a linear tracker and have the best of both worlds - ideally zero tracking error and a lower effective mass equivalent to a normal pivoted arm (Translation: you should get better results when playing warped records and less problems with woofer pumping with cartridges that like lower VTF.)

All arms require you to set an angle of the cartridge and at a specific position within the headshell slots. You actually don't save on anything with this arm. I wear glasses and I can't see things sharp closer than about half an arms length away. So I have to use a USB microscope to see what I'm doing. Even then, there is still plenty of scope (pun intended!) for error.
To setup a linear tracker you still need the equivalent of an arc protractor - the difference is it is a straight line vs a curve. You still need to twist the cartridge to align the cantilever to a grid on the line.


Regards Anthony

"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats


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