unique tonearm Brooklyn Bridge
Hi Lewn, From a quick search on the net, I'd found 2 more pics. It's made from balsa wood and an unipivot I think. http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a52/jasnev/4056fa78.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a52/jasnev/cbcbb807.jpg |
Jaspert, Thanks for the URLs, but both of them lead me to blank pages with no photos. Travis, Possibly because I was not able to view the photos, I do not understand your reference to the L07J (what the cognoscenti know to be the model designation of the L07D tonearm). As for me, I would not say that I am a "fan". There are some things about it that do not fulfill modern ideas of tonearm perfection. But the proof is in the pudding, and it does produce good music with both my Koetsu and my Stanton 980LZS. I look forward to running the wires straight from the cartridge thru to my preamp. That should be "awesome". I suspect the arm tube and headshell are very very well damped; resonant colorations are very very low. |
Lew, The photos (which may be being blocked by a popup blocker (I can see them still, on an iPad tethered to an iPhone in the back of a cab in Tokyo - I LOVE cool technology like this) show the Aura TT with three arm pods, one holding the black balsa creation of Mr. Whittaker and the other two holding L-07J tonearms. My comment was just in relation to a comment you made on the arm in one thread (something about how it didn't have many fans as I recall). I agree with you on all points on the tonearm (though I tend to think of it as pleasing coloration rather than absolute lack of it). Cheers! |
I have a hunch that the colorations the L07J may impart are due to the multitude of physical contacts in the signal path and possibly to their choice of Litz wire in the headshell, the tonearm body, and in the IC, plus the "sound" of that DIN plug with its huge contact pins. I will be able to say that more definitively after I bypass the whole shebang. Anyway, I like the net product of the L07D and its tonearm a whole bunch, as I have already stated ad nauseam. If you have not inserted an EMI/RFI shield between the base platter and the platter sheet, you may be missing something. I did it with a piece of TI Shield from M Percy. Makes a difference. Sorry for the OT comment. |
