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Re: How long IS that arm?

Yeah, effective length, 309 mm, per Vinylengine's database.

Skip this if you saw our last discussion in a User510 thread, but here's my take on the 12 inch tonearm....

'Having tried a couple of arms now with Garrard 301's, I'll add my vote to the 12-Inch appreciation club. Somehow the twelve-inch geometry conveys even more of the un-concerned confidence that the 301's already have.

Seems to me that all pivotted arms are a bit of a compromise (compared to that nonexistent perfect lateral-tracking ideal)... but the longer 12 inch arms are simply less-so of said compromise's negatives.....

Three Inches ? Not much, really --or is it ?
Three inches more is an addition of a full third of the length of the standard nine-inch arm. Not insubstantial.

A drop in tracking distortion, even at the limited levels noticeable btwn 9 and 12 inch arms, brings a further feeling of expansiveness to the proceedings... Kind of like stretching out*, feeling uncramped-up. And, as I've mentioned before, puts the armbase further in the right direction from the motor by a substantial three more inches......'

Oh, and the Ikedas and the EMTs look especially long due to their shorter headshells.... so yeah, the arm is a little longer to compensate, tallying up all the same in the end.

J.D.

* This asterisk message removed due to OMalley's maddening tendency to post cryptic and logic-stumping followups........

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