Tonearm recommendation

Dear syntax: I stopped for almost 3 years to post/participate in Agon forums and it's incredible ( as people say in my country: " a case for the spider " ) that people like you still are hevy sticky to the same distortions generators proudly showing your very high ignorance level and I said proudly because that's " recorded " through your virtual system.
It's pity that peple like you just do not grow-up and you have to give thank's for that to your audio advisers/sellers that are very happy to take money from you, you are the audio paradise for any audio seller. Nothing wrong with me, go a head: to where? because you just don't move anywhere.

Now, you came to this thread not as a contributor that have something on hand to help and if you want to do it please do it a favor and a favor to all of us and answer this question:

in what way or how your 66 distortion generator item helps for the cartridge can shows it at its best? where belongs its " wonderful " advantages " and which are those advantes and why is that way?

You are or at least think you are an expert and for sure you can give us the ight answers. Thank's in advance for that.

In the other side your you-tube link is the third time you posted on Agon and coming from you has no effect in me. Here too you can go on! and please show here your expertise and enrich the thread.

Friends, I know that this gentleman will not post about but we will see if this time disclose him-self.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

Dear ochremoon:  """  not another boring digital vs analog one! """ ????

That vs exist NO  any more what today exist are two valuable alternatives: digital that's the one that performs nearer to the recording with the lower distortions and the analog one that performs a litle more away from the recording and with higher distortions.


My advise is that if we can then try to enjoy both and I repeat this: if in our system we don't like what we listenen through the digital alternative or what we listen through a well damped tonearm then we have somewhere a heavy system problem and we must to find out where and make the right changes in our beloved home audio system.


Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

To Fleib and anyone else who was apparently offended by my post.  I do apologize for going off topic.  I was responding to Raul.  But I too dislike the old analog vs digital shouting match, and I let myself fall into that trap for a moment.  Mea culpa. Probably Raul himself did not mean to go there.

However, if there was something else I wrote that was provocative in a negative way, please clue me in.

Dear lewm: """  Probably Raul himself did not mean to go there. """

exactly. My post was only like a paragon/example of something with the same effect to explain why we like higher distortions and do not like lower distortions.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

ct0517 -- further to "repeatability" when it comes to tonearm setup. Firstly I should discuss my approach to setup. It’s the typical iterative VTF/SRA approach using a Cartridge Man stylus gauge (best device of it’s type I’ve found, unreliable little buggers however that are prone to breaking down) and then setting SRA using a DinoScope. Azimuth is set roughly using a Fozgometer then fine tuned by ear using mono female voice (method per Durand, see his site for reference)

Critical to this is the ability to go backwards and forwards on tonearm height to dial in SRA very finely. Of the four arms I’ve owned recently the SME-IV is a joke (one way only adjustment and for that even you needed to buy the FD-IV setup). The Wand+ is a set screw and manual raise/lower, obviously rough but bear in mind the price of this arm is much less than all the others. The Triplanar at first glance seems fine but the reality is the dial based approach is quite confusing -- you have to remember a) which way you turn and b) how many times -- in reality I was always needing to do multiple turns to remind myself if I was raising or lowering and then dial back -- a real pain. The Kairos is a simple gradated dial on the base, easy as pie.

Finally to dial in azimuth on the Triplanar you do have a grub screw which is quite precise but again there’s no direct easily visible feedback between adjustment and the arm wheras on the Kairos being a unipivot you can directly see how raising the balance bar tilts the arm clockwise (as viewed from the front) and vice versa. The Wand+ is also quite intuitive once you get the hang of it, you move a set of offset weights left or right to tilt the arm to one side or another, seems clunky but it is actually very precise and repeatable.

In conclusion repeatability and ease in adjustment comes from a clear visible link between the adjustment and the impact therof which is true for the Kairos while it was not for the TriPlanar. My one knock on the Kairos however would be that I think the small VTF weight may wander (i.e. drift on the thread) in use -- keep rechecking VTF regularly and you are good however.