Schröder Tonearm

Buddy - Frank aint my friend. I just like the sound. And yes I do have respect for some gifted designers. And others I don't but I keep my prejudices aside, something you can never do. I guess you are just better than all of us. Your ears are better. Your knowledge superior. Etc etc.

But poor guy could never learn to set up a Schroder and make it sound right. Too bad. Stick with your Phantom, a great design with inherently easy setup. I have made quibbles in reference to the Schroder pains for setup etc. But it does sound glorious. But not with a warm cartridge. Too much of a good thing.

Dear Dgad: ++++++ " But poor guy could never learn to set up a Schroder and make it sound right. Too bad. " +++++

if the Schroeder was a bad tonearm design ( that it did not. ) no one could make that a cartridge sounds good and IMHO I think this is not the Schroeder " scenario ".

Are there better tonearms?, well maybe yes and yes with specific cartridges but this does not means the Schroeder tonearm is a bad design only that's not " perfect ".

As with this tonearm every other one out there has its own trade offs and we customers choose a tonearm with those trade-offs in mind and the cartridge we will mount on it.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Raul,

Agreed! It is all about synergies. This I learned from you and then from experience. There are no absolutes in terms of system synergy.

I've got to say that I am extremely happy with my Schröder Reference tonearm... I use it on a DPS 3 with DV Te Kaitora Rua and Allaerts MC2 Finish on a wide variety of music types, and when approached with a good protractor, I find it not so very difficult to dial in. The sound is wonderful, and the object itself is a thing of beauty.

The quality of sonic performance, as well as beauty, is always and only in the ear and eye of the individual subjective beholder. This is both - the blessing and curse - of audio components and their status.