Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms?

Mikelavigne, I certainly want to set one thing straight: I do have strong opinions about sonics, their differences and relations to components and synergy effects.
And could express them.
I just think that it is a waste of time to display them in public. As there are only a small handful of Audiogoners who actually know from first-hand experience me in person, my preferences, taste, background, audio set-up and therefor my subjective perspective and taste in reproduced sound.
For all others would be just empty blah-blah - or more precisely what Hiho said.....
I can relate sonic signatures to technical design features and certain electrical and/or mechanical interactions between components inside an audio chain.
A lot what is posted here on Audiogon by some is nothing more than posing and congratulation each other what fine equipment the other owns and what a nice if troublesome passion this all is.
For me it is about performance and why and how a certain component can (if it has the potential...) can be brought to show off its virtues.
This may sound calvinistic and like cold german technical view to some.

This may sound calvinistic and like cold german technical view to some

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Dertonarm,

i tried my best to not make my post personal in any way....as all your posts have been made with respect and class. i don't mean to cause you to defend or explain yourself.

i just felt that when you posted that comment that it needed to be considered......as at least to me it's just a fundamnetal conflict to stray too far from the enjoyment of music when speaking about gear....however objective we attempt to be about cause and effect.

science serves art but does not define it.

i'm no techie, scientist, or engineer. maybe if i had more grounding in technical perspective i'd feel different.

this is supposed to fun.

best regards,

Mikelavigne, no problem at all - I just felt that I could clarify a point or two.
This is indeed supposed to be fun, but too many audiophiles do take critic about components they own very personal and too often the components are the center of attention and admiration.
In my point of view there are no such things like "musical or emotionally involving" turntables, amplifiers, cables, cartridges or speakers.
To name them so is almost a contradiction in terms and nothing but a clear proof for the overwhelming attention the audio components do get from most audiophiles.
There are only audio components which do degrade the recorded sound during reproduction.
All do - the better less, the very best very little.

Hi C1ferrari, it is not limited to direct-to-disc recordings. There are a lot great recording out there which can - tracked with the "right" cartridge/tonearm combination - supply the full bodied sound and physical presence one gets from the better r-t-r machines.
It is rarely achieved and there are only very few combinations of LOMC/tonearms out there which can get you that. And this is related to mechanical synergy effects mainly.
But that would be another thread ..... and for sure would raise strong and widespread antagonism.