Gimbal vs unipivot tonearms

@millercarbon, it sounds like you have had some issues with tonearm cables and headshell connections in the past. If all of your connection points are clean and free of oxidation than there really isn't much to be gained by wiring direct. Check a good setup with an ohm meter for resistance and compare to direct wired, should be zero difference. If you heard a difference after converting an arm to direct wiring than you had a problem!
Plus, I hate tonearms with non detachable headshells, makes swapping carts a royal pain. The better tonearms like the Victors and Micro Seiki's use a clamping type collet that is much superior to the type that just draws it in against a rubber washer.

BillWojo

The Thorens td203 with unipivot arm is a steal.

No issues, billwojo. Just experienced enough to know every connection is a discontinuity, and a weakness. In fact if you read my post again it is about connections.

As for me, the one thing I have learned over the years is the fewer connections the better.

Tone arms happen to be the example we are talking about, but there’s a reason I worded it the way I did: the fewer the connections the better applies to everything.

There is simply no getting around it. Now at this point I could say it sounds like you have had some issues with sound quality getting in the way of convenience. But I won’t.

a true zealot would get out the soldering iron…if that wasn’t an….inconvenience….

Enid would be proud and thirty years ahead….still

antigrunge25"Is it just me who is marvelling at Mijostyn‘s certainties in life?;  he is again spouting generalities from insufficient data."

I and others have pointed out that some contributors here have a "faith-based" approach to audio they do not believe in the science but in how they feel about things and they have a list of "beliefs" from which they do not bend, compromise, or deviate and of course they come here to convert the unbelievers to they're beliefs so it is easy to have all the answers!