I would love to demo it. But I do find it priced a bit high.
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10-23-12: Larryi Larryi, The new Schroeder arm is not a standart tangential tracking arm. It is a pivoted arm track like a linear-tracker. "The Schroeder arm has an ingenious mechanism whereby the pivot point of the arm mounted on a cam is pulled out in an arc by the stylus to achieve tangency." You can find good pictures here: http://www.stereomojo.com/Show%20Reports/RockyMountainAudioFest2011Showreportp3.htm |
And thankfully, a beautiful looking arm at last. Makes the Kuzma 4 point appear as gross and ungainly as Quazimodo's goitre. Pity Frank didn't include a detachable universal headshell? I would have seriously considered this.....although if it has the same waiting time as Frank's other arms............? |
Dear Dgad: I don't know which is that price but I would think that the price could goes with the tonearm advantages in this new design over other tonearms. The tonearm quality performance level is the factor that justify a price other than marketing. Anyway, till we don't experienced we can't have a grading on this " novel " tonearm design but knowing the very good job of this designer ( Frank. ) I assume this one will have very high quality performance and will has success. Btw, the japanese tonearm in the link I posted is interesting too, it is a straight one from headshell to tonearm bearing that the designer say " there is no contact at all " and comes with universal removable headshell design as Halcro asked. Good that the analog is growing up on something so important as tonearms with " fresh " ideas. Regards and enjoy the music, R. |
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