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Rabco SL-8E Vs Top Quality Pivoted Tonearms

I am very curious to find out your opinion on the following question……is a Rabco SL-8E linear tracking tonearm (in top operating conditions) as good as a top quality pivoted tonearm such as Graham 2.2, VPI JWM 9, Triplanar, etc., etc. while concidering the following parameters.
The Rabco is not the top quality linear tracking arm ever made but it has the inherent advantage of being linear tracking (as similar as possible to the cutting tool) where the Graham, VPI, Triplanar, etc. are top quality arms in built quality and design but have the shortcomings of a pivoted approach.

So, given the lower quality but better methodology for tracking of the Rabco against the higher quality but less accurate approach for tracking of the pivoted arms which one do you believe will render, all else being equal, the better sound reproduction the Rabco or the Graham, VPI, etc?
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Nandric says: If the Rabco was better, then most of us would have one. Besides there would be probable MK II, MK III, etc. versions as is the case with Graham and Triplanar MK VII.
Well, Nandric, the earliest Rabco was the SL-8 and the mk2 was the SL-8E. There was no Mk3 and Mk4, etc., because Rabco as an enterprise ceased to exist before a Mk3, etc. was designed. On the request of Harman Kardon they designed arms to be integrated in Harman Kardon turntables. Did you try a Goldmund Mk7?
Sorry for my late reply.
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