Schröder Tonearm

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.

Dear Syntax, I do love you but disagree about the 'price
issue'. A 'friendly' price will not improve a component
but it feels great.But the price can also hurt. You just bought a tonearm for, say, $ 5000 and then read the next
day in your own forum from your own comember that you actualy bought crap. Even worst. You got your slate plinth,
polished the beauty for two weeks in your garage and even
used some exotic oil to get this greenesh glow ... You don't even need a LP to enjoy your new toy . But then come
some Aussie from some developing country to tell you that
a plinthless TT on 3 spikes a $ 5 each (=$15) sounds much
better. You would wish that this guy lives next door...
While Freud is dismissed in scientific sence all mechanism
that he was talking about start to work. More in particular
the denial: 'Are you serieus? Ever heard about Newton?Where,if I may ask, am I supposed to put my tonearm'? 'In the other galleon perhaps'?
Some chess master put it this way:' a human needs a valve'.
He meant this in the context of an awkward chess position
but I think that this may be valid in general.
So, dear Syntax , being objective or rational is fine but not all the time.
Regards,