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In Reply to: Re: emt 997 is... posted by John Elison on May 5, 2007 at 16:59:16:
It's a classic example of dumbing-down.
There's nothing wrong with having all your gear being flexible, everything-exchangeable with everything else.. but there's an unfortunate element of being rounded off to the average that goes along with that outlook.Current nine-inch arms cater to the great, averaged-out, middle-ground of cartridge compliance design, in that '15x 106'-kinda-range.
This is an example of the whole marketplace demonstrating risk-avoidance, as in .... affluent audiophile with big-deal cart wants arm that suits it, and everything else... or .... affluent audiophile with big-deal tonearm wants cartridge to suit it, and everything else......
That leads to No Design Excursions Beyond The Middle Ground.
In the old days, excellent LOMC cartridges like Spu's required a heavy arm and counterweight to track appropriately, like the heavy Sme's or Ortofons. Structural integrity was an integral facet of those designs. Once the swing to lightweight mm tracking took place, no one wanted any of that anymore.
Now no designer wants to tilt to either side in tonearm design, and yet still wants to reserve the right to declare their arm correct for "most cartridges"...
Marketing bullshit, tending toward general dumbing down -- of both arm and cart design.
J.
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Follow Ups
- most modern arms nine inch........ - J.D. 19:19:07 05/05/07 (2)
- Amen! - Vinyljh 22:07:15 05/05/07 (0)
- totally agree [nt] - mrotunda 20:04:11 05/05/07 (0)
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