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In Reply to: Yeah, checked it out. posted by garth on August 6, 2005 at 10:33:26:
Hey Garth,I didn't know you had a Schröder. How do you like it? Is it really as good as many people say? If so, what do you think makes it so great?
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the virtually friction free "bearing", as you know it's literally "hanging by a thread" and the damping of the magnets. They make the movement of the arm very stable as if it had much more mass than it actually does. The headshell design is also pretty clever and a breeze to setup.
One is stationary the other on the armwand and their attraction is the damping, as opposed to an oil bath or silicone bath for instance. This magnetic force(s) stabilize the arm in all planes. It is amazing how "stiff" it feels yet how easily it moves.
Just funnin' with ya' John.The gap between the magnets is also adjustable. The string suspending the one that supports the armwand is on a threaded mount. Turning the screw raises/lowers the upper magnet and adjusts the gap. The closer the magnets, the stronger the attraction and the greater the damping. It's very cool.
Even more cool is the resonance damping of that wooden stick. I think the Reference is the quietest arm on the planet. The noise floor is lower than my TriPlanar's, lower than your SME's, lower than any arm I've heard. That's even more cool, from a musical perspective anyway.
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I think magnets are a great tonearm stabilizer. Even the new Graham unipivot uses magnets to stabilize the design.I know Garrard played with this a bit in the mid and late 70's I had a Garrard Zero 2000 B with magnets to control the antiscate. As cool as the Zero 2000 B concept was, a good straight tonearm just wiped it in terms of sound quality.
I wish a really good manufacturer like Micro Seiki would have tried a similar style arm. Maybe they did and abandoned the idea LOL.
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