- Was the Ortofon Kontrapunk B lack of performance related to compliance (And the arm’s effective mass)?
- Or tone arm bearings?
- Or something else?
Another “How to choose an arm” question
I currently have a Sota Saphire running an SAEC We317 arm (221mm spindle to pivot and 12 mm overhang).
That is running a Garrott Bros p77i, but I have been looking at some LOMC cartridges, as well as SoundSmith LO-MI, AT ART, etc.
How is one supposed to determine their current arm is good or not?
It sounds fine and I would think that the knife edge design is not prone to a lot of wear.
However it was recommend that I upgrade the arm… But how would I know “to what”, and how would I know if the upgrade is worthwhile?
I was looking at some DD tables to have a more expanded choice of arms that can be mounted, as the Sota is a bit restrictive in that regard. That is still on the cards as a possibility… however assuming that the Sota is a keeper, then how do I determine the arm’s adequacy, being “fit for purpose”?
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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. |
The K'b is not the ideal compliance for the SME 3009, the comparison was to allow for my friend to hear the K'b that they had purchased in an alternate Tonearm, and to gauge if there was anything tobe concerned about the purchased Cart', hence I bought my K'b. I could have brought the SME IV and Audiomods Series V, but the get together was mainly to show the K'b in a different arm. If the intention was to gauge the best arm, I would have brought the other Tonearms along, and made a longer period available for the investigations. As said, 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' in the system and environment the demonstration took place. |
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