Gimbal vs unipivot tonearms

@rodman99999 , Thanx for the info. I really like the Tact 2.2x. I love the dynamic loudness function  but, time and tech moves on and I am debating going for a Trinnov Amethyst. If I decide not I will look into upgrading the power supply. I had analog input boards but the right channel went south so I got a Benchmark ADC 1 with which I am very happy. Using outboard DACs gets complicated when needing four channels. Fortunately, the Tact DACs are excellent with a signal to noise ratio of 125 dB. By all means get yourself a bigger room:-)

@lewm , I can't think of any air bearing arms back then. I was not impressed with the Goldmond. I thought it a big waste of money. It was on the right path but the tech to pull it off was not available back then Rabco or not. It is now but at stupid expense given the demand. There is a German company making a belt driven carriage drive straight line tracker whose error is vanishingly low and the actual arm is a rather standard 2 axis affair. Horizontal and vertical effective masses are close unlike an air bearing arm. I'm sure it performs well but it is over $100K. The Schroder LT is a far better solution using the energy supplied by friction to power the arm. You should download the patent. It is the only way you can really understand what he designed. Reed did the same thing with the 5T but used a very low speed motor to power it costing twice as much as the LT.
The CB is a great design but the LT is brilliant. 

Air bearing arms and Clearaudio's design are defective from the start. They oscillate horizontally at low frequencies. Maybe you could dampen this out somehow but I have not seen anyone do this effectively. The suspended stylus has to move this mass along one way or the other, frictionless bearing and all. Swirling air currents around a cartridge are not a good idea either. 

GO MAX!!! 

@mijostyn- If you still have that TacT, DAC output board: chances are 99 out of 100; it was one of the surface mount caps, that went South.  It's
that exact failure, those in the know about Tact, check first.

      It was when one of mine did the same thing, that I decided to do the Full Monty and replaced all of those little punks, wherever I found them.

      That's been quite a few years and zero problems, since!

       I'd bet: were you test the caps on that board, find the culprit and replace it: it would come back to life.   Not that reading surface mounts on the board, is any kind of picnic, but...

        How I WISH this digital stuff were built point to point!   However: I suppose that would take cabinetry, the size of a small refrigerator and the same amount of cooling.

        OH: I'd also put money on you forgetting about that $10K Amethyst, were you to try the upgrade.

         If you're still using the Tact for anything: you could try a higher wattage Means Well very cheaply, to see if you notice any improvement, in it's dynamics and headroom*.       Everything just plugs in and you trim the voltages.

                      *Ever over-drive yours (digital clipping)?

@mijostyn- "By all means get yourself a bigger room:-)"

       Actually: the property values have skyrocketed, in my neighborhood, as have the property TAXES, of course and I have a buddy in the realtor biz, who's going to list mine.

        How I wish country churches and old Amish barns hadn't become so popular to renovate into homes, in the last couple decades.

                            Anyway: I AM working on that!