Tonearm adjustments on the fly
@atmasphere, The Schroder CB's bearings are ceramic, even harder. It is reported to have the lowest friction of any captured bearing arm made. Whether that is true or not I can't say but it is a very sensitive arm and it will move with just the air currents in the room.@mijostyn Do they have any play in them? That's always been the tricky bit. Stiction is a real word. (There's no 'k'.) It means just what you think it means.:) |
I know that Reed tonearms allow for this, but what other ones do?Sitting in the sweet spot with the power of a Remote Control that Controls your SRA... Mongoose |
There is an ultra rare Airtangent straight line tracking arm that had the capability to raise and lower the arm by remote control. That would be close to the ultimate setup for lazy adjustability, particularly if the arm were a neutral balance arm where tracking force does not change (I don't know if that is the case). The Basis Vector arm has a mechanism that would allow for on the fly raising and lowering of the tonearm, but, when one selects the desired height, the main locking grub screw has to be tightened, and then the raising and lowering mechanism is backed off so that it is no longer in contact with the armboard (too much work for ultra lazy people). |
The tonearm tube is internally damped with a strip of felt and the SME type removable headshell is gripped by a collet arrangement. But above all the barrel has undergone an incredible surface treatment that is not conductive to further shield the cables that pass inside from radio and Emi interference that propagate in the air, it is sufficient to try with a tester to see that there is no it is conduction. When some manufacturers painted the barrel to make them non-conductive, Victor had adopted a valid and expensive method of treatment. https://i.postimg.cc/Gmr3Nb7Q/A.jpg |
