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Thanks

Posted by B.K. (A) on August 22, 2013 at 08:30:26

In Reply to: Bloody good show Brian! posted by tubesforever on August 21, 2013 at 20:04:02:

Yes, I had a turntable set up in the living room, but this one in the smaller room has a more cozy feeling.

The RS Labs headshell does not work as reported! There are numerous problems with this design. For one, the theory is wrong, a headshell with a pivot at the stylus tip will not self align. I tried several different configurations and found also that the headshell does not self align regardless of where the pivot is moved forwards or backwards relative to the stylus tip.

Secondly, even if it did work, the cartridge leads impose far too much bias on the headshell to allow free movement. I tried several different leads too, long and short. I found that if you twist and pull the leads so that the headshell is roughly aligned as intended, then it sort-of stays that way. But the process is very approximate.

Besides the above, there were a number of other issues, the design is just not very good: the pivot has too much friction, and if you loosen it, there is too much slack. In any case, what I really wanted was to experiment with alternative alignments, to see what were the advantages of the different options. My next step is to have a similar headshell machined, allowing variable offset with the stylus at the pivot.

Might take another few years to see that upgrade though!

Best regards,

BK

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