Looks like we are following in the footsteps of others. This is an interesting thread: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/dont-listen-to-records-on-fm.359025/ There are links to two different tonearm geometries playing a solo piano in post #2. Please watch those videos before reading the whole thread, and especially before looking at the other links or further down to post #14 where the geometries are shown. The difference is huge, even to my ear. |
Dogberry, Thank you so much for finding and posting the thread from DIYAudio. It's a very valuable contribution to this thread. I also finally see why the RS Labs RS-A1 might actually benefit from its weirdly raised pivot (which aligns the arm wand with cantilever VTA and thereby reduces vertical FM modulation). Too bad that this is done at the expense of some other factors. Nevertheless, the main issue is horizontal scrubbing and how it is greatly increased by headshell offset angle. I hope that some others who are dead set against underhung tonearms with zero headshell offset will read the DIYAudio thread and above all, watch and listen to the Youtube videos provided therein. |
Was thinking the same thing, not so much in terms of that phrase "cantilever haze" (with which I am not familiar), but of the fact that cartridges with a very short cantilever might be less subject to the phenomenon of horizontal scrubbing. For what it's worth, my DV 17D3, with its very short cantilever, sounds particularly special (meaning especially improved) on the Viv tonearm. Just food for thought. |
