Share your real knowledge on cartridge arm matchin

05-01-08: Rauliruegas
Gerry, I'm sorry I can't help you with a precise answers on what you are looking for.

Uh, yes you could.

You're the guy with the multiple turntables, tonearms, headshells, and cartridges. Surely you've tried enough arm/headshell/tonearm/turntable combinations to come up with a few that are particularly synergistic. You've just expounded on how there are so many variables that the math can only take you so far. That means that experimentation takes you the rest of the way, which is something you claim to have done extensively over decades transcending various philosophies of design and materials engineering.

Care to share anything besides how complicated it all is? The rest of us manage to take a pivoting stick, a needle, and a platter, scratch it across a disk of plastic and get music to come out that moves us to smile, dance, or weep.

How 'bout you?

I prefer just any old stick with a nail through it.

Happy Listening!

Dear johnnyb53: I'm refering to this:

+++++ " Share the reasons the match works well so we can learn something new...." +++++

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Raul, next time I'll make it easier for everybody. Name your favorite top three cartridge/arm combinations. Forget the reasons, who needs to learn?

R_f_sayles, in the six threads you started before on Audiogon you seemed to be looking for real answers and when you answered other threads you gave intelligent comments. I guess this thread's direction struck your funny bone.

"enjoy the music"

Thanks to krenzler (AA) for these links on arm/cartridge matching. these are mainly formulas, but with interesting reasoning.

Some good reading on the subject in these links (copy/paste):

http://www.theanalogdept.com/cartridge___arm_matching.htm

http://www.moerch.dk/files/Cartridge%20Armtube%20Combination%20List.pdf

(see the text at the bottom of the Moerch pdf file).

From Van den Hul's Phono FAQ:

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x238/krenzler/1-11.jpg

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x238/krenzler/2-11.jpg

http://www.vandenhul.com/userfiles/docs/Phono_FAQ.pdf

http://www.cartridgedb.com/tools.asp

(The resonance calculator top left is a nice little tool).

Rgrds.