VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D

@stringreen, "it depends on where you want to put the errors".  You're making excuses for VPI and you can't even see it.

Slaw....I can see you jumping in place all red in the face.  You seem to  simply don't understand why there exists such thing as overhang adjustment.  I can explain it to you, but you would probably retain the information if you get it from your research.   The arm's error in tracking a record can be placed at the beginning, middle, or end of its traverse through the side.....there are advantages and disadvantages in placing the worse error or average error in the stylus's path.  VPI has chosen a different path than Feickert....choose your poison.

Slaw... re: cole..... I was trying to be cute with your name "Slaw."  ...Cole Slaw   get it??

I get it. If you really think I'm jumping up & down, red in the face..why would you antagonize me with the "cole" remark? Wouldn't it be more productive to answer my posts/questions straight on without deviating from them? Just waiting for a competent response to my previous posts?

Just a post ago you told me to try the Fieckert. When I had previously mentioned it in order to make my point. Try proof-reading your own responses/posts before making another post, please!

You choose your responses to advert your/ initial response for your own  advantage as to not address my thoughtful posts. You are/have seemingly made your history on this "off-the-hand" maneuvering.

Believe me, I'm confident in my posts. Please just make an appropriate, honest attempt in answering them without the histrionics!

Overhang adjustment. @stringreen, I assume you know that there is an adjustment feature in the 3D arm for this at the headshell? Right? This is the end-user's discretion  based upon the varrious cartridge mounting holes. This is THE reason for this "latitude". The S2P distance should be set as a NON-ISSUE! I thought I was tired before,... now I"M REALLY TIRED!

This is a response to Raul's contention that there is a "problem" with unipivot tonearms.  I am studiously trying to avoid the exchange about VPI and overhang.  I had read all of Raul's posts, watched the You Tube video (actually I saw it several months ago) and so on, but did not find it particularly enlightening or persuasive.  It falls far short of proof in any scientific sense that a problem exists with unipivot tonearms.  Yes they wobble a bit at first drop, but stabilize very quickly.  I have measured the tracking performance of several setups over a number of years using test records such as those from Shure and Ortofon among others.  Properly set up, the ability of any given cartridge to track well is not noticeably different when mounted in a unipivot tonearm.  This can be heard and observed using an oscilloscope.  That is a fact.  Cross talk for any given cartridge is not measurably diminished based on two arms of comparable quality, one double gimbal type vs. a unipivot.  That is a fact.  As any stylus wears I have carefully observed the patterns of wear for cartridges mounted on quality arms of various designs and have not observed any aberrations in wear patterns that resulted from unipivot arms.  This has been done using a Herr-Wildbrugg microscope, Model M3 or M5 starting in 1975 or 1976.  That is a fact.  So based on my years of experience setting up turntables (professionally 1970-1979), and the observable facts cited herein, I will state my opinion that there is no inherent problem with unipivot tonearms.  They are different and not to eveyones' liking, but functionally they are fine.  If you don't like them, don't use one, but you have no cause to malign the design.

Regards,

Bill