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It is proof only that some vinylphiles are anti-skating dogmatics

Posted by Dave Pogue (A) on May 8, 2007 at 03:56:16

In Reply to: Actually you will need to support that this is nonsense. posted by tubesforever on May 8, 2007 at 00:27:46:

Sorry, tubes and everone else I've just offended. Harry Weisfeld's original anti-skating scheme for the JMW arm was elegant and very effective. I have a JMW 10.5 and can assure you that its wire-twist approach works wonderfully well. No inner groove distortion, tracks like a champ, plays the first three of those Hi-Fi News "torture tracks" without incident, last time I tried. But it's "unconventional" and thus, in some eyes, doomed.

But to really get a fix on the subject you need to play with an RS-A1 arm, as I have for the past month. Straight flat arm, no offset, NO ANTI-SKATING, decoupled headshell, decoupled counterweight (free to swing in the breeze), an undamped unipivot ... and the entire arm just sits there on the armboard, unattached to it. When set up properly, it exhibits a centimeter's worth of UNDERhang. No cueing, and an absolute ergonomic nightmare -- don't even THINK about trying to get the stylus into a lead-in groove if you've had a drink or two. But the finest sounding arm I've ever used. This sucker tracks anything, has incredible dynamics, but is so counter-intuitive in how it goes about the job that it has made me rethink everything I thought I knew about tonearms.

The RS-A1 simply blows away -- with the same cartridge -- my third arm, an SME IIIs with conventional fishing-line-and-weight anti-skating. I've found that this arm sounds its best with minimum anti-skating or with the fishing line thingie removed altogether.

BTW, whatever do you mean by "flying blind?"

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