Gimbal vs unipivot tonearms

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!

a quick find

https://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/armdesign_e.html

it's gravity and the methods of resisting/using it.

Unipivot: My SME, 3009, very old design, still highly respected: the design is obvious, the adjustments results perfectly visible, and they hold their positions. anti-skate pure gravity. Long ago the rubber isolation sleeve needed replacement, they send me parts and instructions, fixed!

Gimbal: current blackbird 12.5" arm. Less fuss, Sounds great, but, you have to trust the parts and machining of the OEM, you cannot 'see' it's perfect.