Schröder Tonearm

Most Tonearms guide a cartridge, here it is the other way. Listening to uncompressed music via this Design is like driving a car with 3 wheels.

Syntax,

Don't get me going. You are way off on this. Most cartridges guide the arm. The ones with sticky bearings mess it up. And there are many to that effect. If you have nothing good to say (of course a fellow German designer who is not your friend) then stay shut. You can say some smart things but get off of your attack to never end.

I can't stand it, that you don't love me. Is it necessary to have Designers as a friend? For what? Does it make an average Design any better? Does it sound better when getting something for a "friendly" price? I don't care.
In a way, it is ok for me, that no Designer from anything of my System is a personal friend. I can live with that. I prefer knowledge.

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.