Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms

@tomic601 my wife tells me I'm 1000% dog. I started painting my nose black back in 95 to get more attention. Growing a tail helped.

@asvjerry See, that tonearm has warped your brain. I had that H-K turntable and it warped mine. Tail wagging the dog. There you go, best use of a Rabco, as a car bomb. 

@billstevenson I can't imagine rewiring an arm would bother you that much.

@whart The Koetsu works reasonably well in the Airline because of it's very low compliance. The air bearing does absolutely nothing to alleviate the high horizontal mass, that would be magic. 

Frank Kuzma does one of everything to suite all comers or just to say he can. His unipivots are just as bad or as good as anyone's and the same holds true of the Airline. He can not even make his mind up on what kind of turntable to build, so he builds one of everything.

@pindac Removable head shells are for lazy people. It adds another set of contacts which is never a good idea. I like the Kuzma/Schroder solution which is a removable cartridge carrier without another set of contacts. 

I love how your physics is understood so as to justify your choices of components. But we all do that to some extent. There is a valid rationale for high horizontal effective mass which I’ve mentioned elsewhere and which I don’t feel like typing out yet again. If you have an LP that is so off center that it sets the AS weight into pendulum motion, then that LP needs to be re-centered with a reamer or trashed. IIRC, skating is worst at the outer and inner grooves, just  bc where the magnetic mechanism would be least consistent.

@mijostyn *L*  Y'all can blame a tonearm, but The Truth?

Lemme' show you the list I've compiled....

*Produces a roll, grabs loose end....roll hits floor and begins to uncoil,,,,*

Wanna start at birth or just cut to the grisly bits? ;)

Likely Rabco disappeared 'cuz of all the warped legal cases.....😏

@mijostyn said "The air bearing does absolutely nothing to alleviate the high horizontal mass, that would be magic. "

I understand- I guess, from my crude understanding of mechanics/physics, this is the difference between "weight" and "mass,"- that is, while the air bearing, properly designed to account for the load (of the entire arm "carriage") will relieve the weight or friction between the arm tube and the travel rail, the mass of the carriage remains the same. 

@mijostyn  : I'm sorry but you are wrong when posted:

" because of it's very low compliance.  " NO, it's not. It's around 14cu-15cu.

and you are wrong but I respect that you do nt cares about when psted:

" I can't imagine rewiring an arm would bother you that much "

it's crucial and way important to have the best internal wire in tonearm an that the re-wiring be made by professional people.

R.