Unipivot tone arms

VPI arms are excellent if set up properly.....like all things  Mine isn't truly a unipivot ....I've attached their 2nd pivot....works great 

Daveyf,

To the extent that a unipivot might tilt when encountering some sort of irregularity in a groove, might this degree of freedom be a plus in that the stylus will tilt to accommodate the shape of the groove rather than plowing through the groove?  This is at least an interesting theoretical issue.  Thank you for raising it.

I have a VPI, the arm doesn't bother me.

I rotate carts every month or so and it's like setting up any other cart like on say a Rega.

Now that I use a unipivot, it kinda bothers me that a gimbaled arm can only track in two axis, while the unipivot is free to track along a theoretical infinite axis.

Last time I looked, most records aren't perfectly flat.

Wow!  Great post!  Thanks to all for the excellent responses.  I learned quite a bit!

Another Schiit Sol owner here, The first time you send that tone arm flying with the slightest touch is pretty scary. I mean, it is totally unconstrained! You read the manufacturer’s info to see if that’s supposed to happen. But like anything else, once you’re set up and everything is working smoothly, you just get used to it and life is good. I still sometimes wonder how that big old cartridge body (Grado Opus3) remains stable balanced between the pinpoint of the stylus and the needle point of the unipivot. But it does.