Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm


I am trying to do my due diligence about this arm. I am just having a hard time getting my head around this idea of zero overhang and no offset. Does this arm really work the way it is reported to do?

neonknight

Yes, maybe.  I still have more work to do that requires just listening. My opinion is that the special sound quality of this tonearm has more to do with the underhung geometry than with low friction.

I'm with @lewm 

It is a wonderful place to arrive at during an investigation, when all that is wanted is to forget the lot and just kick back and listen to the result. 

@lewm  :  It is totally obvous for any audiophile that that " special "/different sound quality is due to tonearm/cartridge big angle error over the LP groove modulations.

 

I mentioned that bearing low tonearm friction only because the designer says it's one of his main targets but for me that he said that is not totally trust information but untrusty one when he does not shows the tonearm measured bearing friction and due that he only " talk and talk " permit me to think that maybe he never measured and only a good  " desire ".

Anyway, the real fact is that you like that special sound ( as you named. ) as many other owners even that the reproduction is " untruer " to the recording in comparison with a normal tonearm.

 

R.

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