Unipivot and suspended TT?

This idea may have arisen from someone using something like the VPI arm on a light suspended table like the Linn, the arm is much too heavy for the suspension, it has nothing to do with the arm's bearing type.

Stanwal, I don't know if your response is to my post or something you were just adding to the thread.

I agree the mass of the tonearm is detrimental in the situation you list but I assure you incorrect azimuth is very audible and difficult to get perfect when you have a floor and/ or turntable that frequently go out of level.

I simply meant that heavy arms are often incompatible with lightweight tables. Being a VPI dealer I can see how heavy their arms are and as they are probably the most common unipivot arm I suspected someone had tried to mount one on a table that was too light. There is nothing about a unipivot arm that would prevent it working with any table that it was physically compatible with. I am probably one of the few left who used the Pickering unipivot arm, which was a steel spike resting in a plastic cup on the arm, seemed to work then. I had the Transcriptors fluid dampened arm, which was probably the first one of it's kind. As well as the one [audio & design?] which rested in a mercury bath, no wires as the mercury was suppose to conduct the signal. I was smart enough not to set the last two up as they were Rube Goldberg on steroids.

I am currently using a Scheu Taco arm (unipivot), mounted on my Avid Volvere deck with no issues, for the contrary - I witnesed every single word from a review I read some weeks back where a Naim ARO arm was compared vis-a-vis with an SME, the reviewer found a more musical, liquid and non-mechanical sonic reprodiction from the Naim arm vs the SME fixed pivot design.

Mingles, You've heard my VPI HW19IV/Moerch UP-4 setup so you know the combo of suspended TT/unipivot arm can sound very good.
You should mount your Haddock and invite me over for a session.