Dertonarm wrote, "The day a linear tracker shows up which does address the obvious issues of the mechanical model, I am in the first group to buy it. And I will do so before any "sound report" or sonic description by anybody."
Bravo! I will join you if I can afford this potential design, surely will be expensive! Thanks for sticking to mechanic discussion. No, you did not spoil the party. In fact, you have lively up the party. The great filmmaker John Cassavetes once wrote to a writer friend, Energy bursts out of your writing. I've been thinking about you. The unknown adventurer. Blasting forth through concrete. Blast them. Then love them. Then blast them again... You see, the blasting and loving is the same thing. Your passion for audio and science is applauded.
The Thales arm and the new sibling Simplicity arm look to have this potential but I do have concern about its extra bearings for the guiding motions to achieve geometric accuracy and hopefully not in the classic case of when the cure is worse than the disease. Regardless, I applaud innovative thinking.
Personally I have given up on the perfect tonearm. I like both genres, as long as people don't tell me their only reason for not liking pivot arm is because a linear tracker tracks more like the cutter head. Maybe I should just go digital. :-)
Just kidding!
This has been an exhilarating thread!
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