Now here is a poser for all you guys -
An engineer/mathematician friend of mine suggested many years ago that if you run a tangential tracking tonearm and set the stylus exactly on the tangent, then the stylus has no reference as it has no lateral forces acting upon it and hence it is unstable. ( for those of you old enough think old fashioned cars with kingpins and wobbly steering when centered ).
His proposal was that if you run a tangential tracking arm then you should run a tiny amount of overhang and tracking angle on the cartridge.
Thoughts anyone...
An engineer/mathematician friend of mine suggested many years ago that if you run a tangential tracking tonearm and set the stylus exactly on the tangent, then the stylus has no reference as it has no lateral forces acting upon it and hence it is unstable. ( for those of you old enough think old fashioned cars with kingpins and wobbly steering when centered ).
His proposal was that if you run a tangential tracking arm then you should run a tiny amount of overhang and tracking angle on the cartridge.
Thoughts anyone...