I read:
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what was the rational behind their creation?
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IMHO:
-strive for zero tracking angle error; not really the case on most designs.
-low effective arm masses
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...Are there any good used tables to consider...
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Underrated, cheap and really good- sounding: Technics models like SL-5 SL-7 and SL10. Balanced designs IMHO.
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or is this design long gone?....
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Nononononono..... Njet! There are current models in the Clearaudio and Rauna (Swedish, next street) line:
http://www.rauna.com/
The rauna (once called "El Cheapo") tangential arms are like all Clearaudio Southern models passive tangentials: the goove delivers the movement- energy.
Still there are many tangantial freaks who have built copies of the famous Ladagaard's Air Arm, a tangential floating on a layer op compressed air.
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the simplicity of operation intrigues me...
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There is nothing more simple as a passive radial arm. Some tangentials are amazingly simple too. But most active models are not very simple in my point of view.
I own a lovely little Technics SL- J2. A cute capsulated quartz-DD active tangential player. The enclosure is not larger than a LP- sleeve!
Jan.
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what was the rational behind their creation?
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IMHO:
-strive for zero tracking angle error; not really the case on most designs.
-low effective arm masses
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...Are there any good used tables to consider...
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Underrated, cheap and really good- sounding: Technics models like SL-5 SL-7 and SL10. Balanced designs IMHO.
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or is this design long gone?....
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Nononononono..... Njet! There are current models in the Clearaudio and Rauna (Swedish, next street) line:
http://www.rauna.com/
The rauna (once called "El Cheapo") tangential arms are like all Clearaudio Southern models passive tangentials: the goove delivers the movement- energy.
Still there are many tangantial freaks who have built copies of the famous Ladagaard's Air Arm, a tangential floating on a layer op compressed air.
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the simplicity of operation intrigues me...
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There is nothing more simple as a passive radial arm. Some tangentials are amazingly simple too. But most active models are not very simple in my point of view.
I own a lovely little Technics SL- J2. A cute capsulated quartz-DD active tangential player. The enclosure is not larger than a LP- sleeve!
Jan.