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In Reply to: Re: Wooden tone arms posted by chris1 on May 13, 2007 at 12:47:33:
in what way is it a better match?
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the 29 gm effective mass.
there is so little talk about this arm on the net that I wanted to hear more from an owner.I talked to the builder and he is as non hi-fi/audiophile a person as you can get. But he has walked through several builds of this arm and hesays it is modelled after the Grado wood arm. His arm broke and the cost of repair cuased him to look into builing his own arm after the Grado.
One interesting point about it is that there are two inner sleeves for the vertical bearings that prevents you from locking the arm. There is one bearing in the base for the horizontal movement and two pins for the horizontal.
I don't know, I am tempted to try out the 16" and with a money back guarantee why not? When it is time for an arm on then plinth I am going to go for it.
O'MalleyYou are dead-on w/your description of Len. However, I am too not as much of a die-hard w/audiophila.
Let's just say that Len's rig is something he's held onto from the past. Mine is more current, and the arm still sounds great. I felt the arm matched well w/my Denon 103 first and foremost. I read somewhere that the 103 likes high mass arms.
Originally, my table had LVX Basik arm. So, I suppose you'll need to take that into consideration. Len built me a couple arm boards cut to the my specified dimensions.
Good luck. I am interested in the 12" arm as well. Just need a 124 to make it happen.
puts the resonance at about 11 Hz. I ain't giving up my ET2.
I am fitting a walnut rob to my ET2 arm, ie. take out the aluminium armtube and fit a ~ 3/8" walnut. I will report the result when it is done.
I can fully believe that the type of wood used to make acoustic string instruments make a difference in their sound. When it comes to tonearms I have my doubts. I find it hard to believe that the forces transmitted by the cantilever has any effect on the tonearm. The loads are to small and the mass is too great. The big forcing functions ( record warp) is don in the 1/2 to 2 Hz range.
I believe it is the wood tonearm together withe metal parts isolated the air-borne vibration from he listening room to the cart. As you had said the cart output is so low any vibration / energy transmitted from the tonearm will affect the sound.
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