Thales Simplicity tonearm review in Stereophile.


Michael Fremer's review of the Thales Simplicity tonearm in this January's Stereophile is pretty brutal. Are there any owners of this tonearm that would take except to his conclusions?
sarcher30
With this headshell adjustment there is no right geometry and it's impossible to get any kind of good results.

Amazing this Thales controversy!
Hiho why do you say that? Just install the arm following Thales' instructions, align the cartridge in the easy to use alignment tool and don't tamper with the factory settings. It's quite simple. If you can manage those simple steps you have an arm that tracks very well and has no inner groove distortion.

Profitournesol, my post was referring to Sarcher30's comment above. He said:
"Having the headshell backward would allow you to get to the cartridge screws, and you would be able to adjust alignment like a normal arm. Instead of using that funky alignment jig it comes with. Unless having the headshell plate backwards would throw it's geometry off. Which it probably would."
He pretty much answered his own question. So bottomline is that when the headshell plate is backward, it is impossible to get the geometry correct.

The stylus has to be exactly below the pivoting bearing on the left wand to be tangent.

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Michael Fremer is someone who no-one in the audio should take serious. Michael Fremer is just comic relief.
You can't aligne it with a standard protractor because of the rotation of the cartridge thanks to both arms. You need the original alignment jig to get proper geometry