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Multiple arms, multiple cartridges and geometry?

I have read the debates regarding the benefits of different tonearm geometries......Lofgren A and B, Baerwald, Stevenson etc....and I appreciate the benefits of choosing where, on the vinyl record, one wishes to have the least spread of distortion.
I also have read where certain arms seem to perform better with one or other of these geometries?

I have two turntables with three different arms on each one and I have a total of over twenty five different cartridges.
Four of those arms have removable headshells and twenty of my cartridges are mounted on their own headshells ready for installation into any of those four tonearms.
How then.......can I have different geometries for each arm if I don't wish to re-align a cartridge within its headshell depending on the arm in which its installed?
Surely......I must select a single geometry for all my arms so that the cartridges fixed to their headshells....are truly interchangeable?

Halcro (System | Reviews | Threads | Answers | This Thread)

03-20-12

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03-20-12 Dear halcro: to do that, fully interchangeable, you need tha ... Rauliruegas

03-20-12 You have obviously set out to drive yourself nuts. oh, wait; ... Stanwal

03-21-12 Dear raul, oh oh.......you mean that when i set up a cartrid ... Halcro

03-21-12 Just go digital and be worry free or at least trade yours fo ... Mapman

03-21-12 "...you mean that when i set up a cartridge on one arm ... Lewm

03-21-12 How about using a standard alignment template, whichever one ... Mapman

03-21-12 Dear mapman, your alignment template works for your tonearm. ... Lewm

03-21-12 Dear henry, you need, it seems, to start a new. i hope that ... Nandric

03-21-12 Dear nikola, que??......... lew.......you're right about my ... Halcro

03-21-12 Dear halcro: i think that i don't explain to good or that yo ... Rauliruegas

03-21-12 Henry - for the arms you use that have detachable headshells ... Dover

03-22-12 Dover, that's what i thought and the principle i have been o ... Halcro

03-22-12 Nandric nailed it. get to work, and you might as well ente ... Dougdeacon

03-22-12 Dear henry, sorry, i overrated my sliwowitz capacity. my con ... Nandric

03-22-12 Halcro, thinking you may be able to work this backwards. ie ... Ecir38

03-22-12 Hi halcro, you said: i see you are still pursuing this ques ... John_gordon

03-22-12 Yes ecir and john, i'd forgotten your earlier response on th ... Halcro

03-23-12 My opinion is that if you care about really precise alignmen ... Lewm

03-26-12 Ok........have just spent the day checking my arms and cartr ... Halcro

03-26-12 So the big question...how does it all sound? how do you cho ... Mapman

03-26-12 Dear halcro: why not align all the removable headshell tonea ... Rauliruegas

03-26-12 Great efforts halcro and i appreciate your sharing the exper ... Peterayer

03-26-12 Dear raul, why not align all tonearm designs at 225-227mm? ... Halcro

03-26-12 Good questions mapman and peter...... in one way i agree wit ... Halcro

03-27-12 Henry, this reminds me of an experience with the cello palle ... Dover

03-27-12 Dear henry, so far as i can overlook our members only thucha ... Nandric

03-27-12 Addition. with so many variables one can forget about the co ... Nandric

03-27-12 Halcro, no worse i suppose then me having to pick a room to ... Mapman

03-28-12 Dear nikola, now that you've pointed it out........i realise ... Halcro

03-28-12 Dear mapman, shouldn't the letter 'p' in your name....be a ... Halcro

03-28-12 Dear halcro you ask for full interchangeability between your ... Rauliruegas

03-28-12 Dear halcro: i see the reason but my question is: do you alr ... Rauliruegas

03-28-12 Dear henry, my father hated two kinds of the human kind: the ... Nandric

03-28-12 Halcro - the eureka moments are gone in a blink of an eyelid ... Dover