Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm

Referring to yourself in the third person is a bad sign. Why didn’t you just announce your superiority from the get-go? Would have curtailed the needless debates. This site might then have been renamed “Clearthinker Forum”. 

Dear @intactaudio  : I think that I did not explain very well on that " bs " about zenith and it's not that be not important the real issue is that no kind of alignment or underhung/overhung tonearm design are the culprit about but the cartridge manufacturer.

We have no single control of what a cartridge manufacturer does and if you buy a cartridge with a way off zenith then return to the manufacturer.

We can't try to " solve " all errors down there, it's if like if you found out a mistake in the LP recording: you can't fix it. The recprding proccess is out of your control same with any audio tem where something is " wrong " and if really is wrong responsability to fix it/support you is the manufacturer.

I can't fix all errors in cartridge/tonearm alignments because even I made time to time " errors/mistakes " about. What I try is to understand what is happening down there at the stylus tip and after that take care for the cartridge/tonearm alignment be as accurated as I can accurated as permit my knowledge levels and alignment tools and that's all.

So, zenith is not my responsability and if I really can't fix why to be anal about:

""" Incorrect Zenith Angle on Cartridges, or incorrect coil angle at the end of the cantilever.

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Zenith angle refers to the angle in which the diamond is glued onto the cantilever.  Sometimes it is not perfectly straight, it actually happens quite frequently.  Or the coil at the end of the cartridge may not be mounted perpendicular to the stylus.

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If there is an inherent imbalance with the cartridge or zenith angle errors  it is a cartridge problem.  ""

Löfgren, Baerwald, Stevenson and the like are away from that issue no matters what.

If you or other gentleman already have an algoritm to fix it then we need all to know it.

Again, yes is important that zenith.

R.

mijostyn

All I can say is that people are entitled to like what they want but then they are not true audiophiles.

An amazing remark. The claim is apparently that the only true audiophiles are those who like what @mijostyn likes, and who change their minds when @mijostyn changes his. Most odd.

@cleeds , there is a distinct difference between a music lover an an audiophile. You can be both. @clearthinker is a music lover. He has his system at the level satisfactory for that enjoyment. @lewm is an audiophile. He is always looking for ways to improve his system and knows his way around a soldering iron. He also looks at audio equipment in an academic fashion with an excellent understanding of the sciences. Then there is everyone else for which I do not have a description.

I was driven to this hobby purely by my twin loves for music especially jazz and gadgets of any kind. My mother was an opera singer, so I was exposed to classical music and opera nearly from birth. I remember watching my father assemble a speaker from a kit he purchased at either RadioShack or from Heath. It had a single coaxial Altec Lansing driver. This was purely for my mother to be able to listen to opera. Then I discovered Miles Davis when I was 15. It is unwise to pigeon hole people as only one thing or another. Somewhere in there I was smitten with sports cars. Like Andre Gide said, “please do not understand me too quickly”.