mint best tractor gone?

Dear @wrm57 : " Lofgren B was (and is, since I am listening to it now) obviously better. Good enough? It is for me. "

Measured differences " numbers " between A and B and maintaining the same efective lenght are really minimal .

To mantain both set ups the same: A and B alignments must be seeting up with different P2S distance that were the one calculated for each kind of alignment.

Measures says ( example: EL 254.00 mm. ) that at 90mm from the center spindle the traking distortion is higher in the A alignment by 0.15% na the tracking error higher by 0.29° been the offset angle the same and overhang difference is: 0.46 mm. and the average rms distortions is higher by 0.04%.

Obviously that after each set up we have to check VTF, VTA and AZ.

It’s not so obvious that with all those measures/and new set up parameters how any one can/could listen any differences in between other that we " want " to hear it...

@mijostyn ?

R.

Sorry. I meaned calculated not measured..

@rauliruegas , Maybe I just got lucky with the B alignment and associated parameters, and then rushed to judgement. But I certainly prefer how it sounds now, and will keep using B until my “luck” changes.

@wrm57 

Until you get a tangential tracker that is.  

@rauliruegas 

Don't worry, I here the difference but I think it is psychological:-) We are looking into using boron for the wand!

Dear @mijostyn ​@wrm57  : There is no perfect tonearms. All develops its own colorations that are independent of the tracking error and then those self tonearm colorations comes mixed with the self cartridge colorations and it's these mixed colorations what at the end say what we like more or less.

All those " play " and developed colorations in the analog domain is what we " like " because changing those colorations is way fun for all of us and is something that the digital alternative just does not permits at the same levels ! ! even that digital is a superior medium that analog..

I love analog and like digital too.

R.

So coming back around.....Gone or not ??