Gimbal vs unipivot tonearms

@rauliruegas -        I understand, perfectly!

      "Curiosity" has killed this old cat's wallet, many times over, in as many scenarios.

                                 "Not any more"...INDEED!

@mijostyn  Air bearing arms are not worth talking about?? I wouldn't state that to any of the many owners of the Eminent Tech arm...an arm that I still feel can compete with some of the best available today.

@mijostyn- "What makes you believe the Tact does not go below 20 Hz?"

    I MEANT* to say: I cut off at 20Hz, in the program.   

    Lower would be a waste of of amplifier power, in my current room, given the dimensions and my phono pre has a subsonic filter, that can't (easily) be defeated.    It's 6dB/oct, so: affects freqs, somewhat higher than a steeper slope would.    

     Kinda between a rock and a hard place, though: if I ever have a larger space, I'm certain to address the issue.

                             *A consequence of Old-Timer's Disease and a brain-fart!

  



    

@daveyf 

@mijostyn  Air bearing arms are not worth talking about?? I wouldn't state that to any of the many owners of the Eminent Tech arm...an arm that I still feel can compete with some of the best available today.

Agree - and despite the high effective horizontal mass I ran a high compiance Shure V15Vmr in my ET2 for 10 years non stop ( with the stabiliser brush removed ), and the original cantilever was still straight as a die after all that time.

Unipivots ironically have the most rigid and free bearing due to the single point.

Gimbal bearings have much higher stiction than unipivots but are more stable.

I have all three arm types - gimbal, unipivot & tangential air bearing.
At the end of the day there are pros and cons with each type, and those that argue one over the other as an absolute do not understand the trade offs inherent in each of the various options.

Dear @dover  : ""  do not understand the trade offs inherent in each of the various options. ""

Agree but when you have to choose in between you will choose according what those trade-offs tells you and the ones that goes in better way to your specific MUSIC/audio priorities.

Like you Ihave first hand experiences with all that kind of tonearms you name it ( I owned the ET2. ) and my final choice is to gimball pivoted ones not unipivots or LT.
For me the gimball ones are way better than unipivots and this does not means I don't understand about trade-offs because I do.

R.