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In Reply to: what about the rubber bands and azimth adjustment? posted by OMalley on September 12, 2006 at 17:33:10:
Actually,I wish Rega had stayed with the suspended motor decoupling scheme by adding a second o-ring mount at the bottom of the motor housing to improve its stability.
I'm not entirely satisfied that the current adhesive motor compliance didn't involve some musical trade-offs in the process of gaining the improved pitch stability that came with the new mounting method.
The old o-ring mount, whether by accident or design, acted as a torque equalising mechanism and to my ears had slightly better flow and ease.
In fact, it's my belief that the bulk of the overall improvements gained in the latest Rega P-series players over the Planars is due primarily to the lower mass plinths and quieter motor.
As far as azimuth correction , Rega feel that precise, rigid coupling of the arm-to-cartridge is most important.
Either use a cartridge that has its stylii properly installed and/or use one that isn't azimuth hyper-sensitive.
Alternately, you can always do the age-old trick of placing a section of string longitudinally along the length of the cartridge body, sandwiched between cart & headshell and get all the adjustment you should require.
Rega's own cartridges have a moulded raised ridge to accomplish exactly that.
Playing devil's advocate, why should azimuth correction be the exclusive responsibility of the tonearm manufacturer, anyway?
After all, the most common reasons for the need is a wonky-arse stylus/cantilever, overloaded/failing cartridge suspension or way-out-of-spec antiskate settings.
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Follow Ups
- what about them? - Ken Lyon 22:06:07 09/12/06 (2)
- Devil's advocate... - tketcham 23:09:34 09/12/06 (1)
- or - OMalley 04:25:16 09/13/06 (0)
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