Another “How to choose an arm” question

<everyone> I appreciate all the back dialogue on the carts.

Since you told Holmz that his vertical bearing sucks I don't have to be the bad guy this time:-)))

What does this knife-edge rattling sound like?
(Having a two arm table would be great to hear the differences back to back.)

I don’t care for sibilant sounds…
(nor “graininess”, which seemed like it was around when I was ruining the old class A/B amp, and matching preamp, but has since left with the tube line stage and amp(s) around the y turn of the millennium.)

The current set up wit the SE317 and p77i is not too sibilant… well a few LPs are… but they were much worse in the past. So it very liveable now, and quiet nice overall.

Yes, you are rigth but when you can't mount a second tonearm in the same TT then the arm pod is an alternative...

@rauliruegas 

I'm quite surprise that why in another thread you strongly disagree of using outboard arm pod on VPI non suspended table but you suggested arm pod for a suspended turntable, a SOTA turntable?

A friend and myself have been comparing Two Identical Brand Cart's being the Ortofon Kontrapunk B, each of these were believed to have less than 300 Hours of use.

A Third Cart' was also used, which is a rebuilt K'b.

Two Tonearms with detachable Headshells were set up on a Plinth that has a well thought out servicing and mounting for a GL 75 (Saucepan Chassis Modification ) 

The Tonearms in use was a carefully serviced SME 3009 and the Tonearm Model I use today.

The 3009 was not able to produce a sound from the MC that was attractive, both K'bs were used to verify if the condition was repeatable.

When the Pivot Bearing Design Tonearm was used the whole presentation immediately corrected and was a very attractive presentation.

The 3009 owner commenced the process of considering changing their Tonearm and in the end ordered a Tonearm the same as my model.

Today the same person is using a 12" Tonearm as their preferred Model with a different Cart' to the K'b.

I don't know if a Knife Edge Bearing can be detected in use, but the SME 3009 does not work with for the betterment of the K'b Cart' when set up on a Bespoke Built GL 75 TT on a dedicated mounting rack and sub plinth structure.

A K'b Cart', might not function at its best, if other SME Models and other Brands Models with similar designs to the 3009 are used with it, but that is conjecture and not useful the best evaluation and assessment of the impressions made, is produced when the ears are the tool and have encountered the items in use.   

1. Was the Ortofon Kontrapunk B lack of performance related to compliance (And the arm’s effective mass)?
2. Or tone arm bearings?
3. Or something else?

Dear @holmz  . The gentleman in the other thread was and is a true rookie on analog issues and an external tower/arm pod will be to complicated for him.

The suspended or not suspended TT designs matters nothing about.

But for all your posts including this " ask " for me already  tell that in this specific analog regards you are not very away of that gentleman.

Look any " audiophile " that's " happy " with a SAEC entry level tonearm and talking of sibilants where no one refered to and that own a tonearm with an internal wire coming from 1982 speaks alone for your knowledge levels on this specific analog regards. Additional to that seems to me that your system has not yet a high resolution with LPs playing.

Your last post makes no sense to me and you took the question for an almost " no one " information.

To each his own. As I told mijos is you who have to stay satisfied with what you change or what you buy. No one is perfect in audio or knows everything about audio and normally we learn from our frecuent mistakes and sometimes is the only way to learn, if you don't make mistakes your analog systems always will " lives " in the mediocrity/average like today. Rigth now your true enemy is no one but you for the knowledge level you have. All of us pass through the " ignorance " first steps in the ladder of learning and step by step we  all learn and that learn means that you have a really fun/emotional analog audio times in the near future and this is good for you: enjoy it.

It's enough for me here.

R.