It's been a few years but the great wheel of hobby stuff has once again come around to turntables and audio stuff.
Bought a Rek-O-Kut with no tonearm.
Want to build a tonearm.
Don't really understand why they make tonearms "S" shaped or straight with an angled cartridge at the end. No matter what you do you are only going to be tangent at one point to the great arc of the LP.
Unless you have a constantly changing head that will remain tangent.
Not impossible, just tricky.
The other thing I was thinking of was a very long tonearm that would lessen the angle of "offness" (but still would only be tangent at one point).
There must be something I'm not aware of in the design of the cartridge....or something.
Help?
Bought a Rek-O-Kut with no tonearm.
Want to build a tonearm.
Don't really understand why they make tonearms "S" shaped or straight with an angled cartridge at the end. No matter what you do you are only going to be tangent at one point to the great arc of the LP.
Unless you have a constantly changing head that will remain tangent.
Not impossible, just tricky.
The other thing I was thinking of was a very long tonearm that would lessen the angle of "offness" (but still would only be tangent at one point).
There must be something I'm not aware of in the design of the cartridge....or something.
Help?
Conventional arms are tangential at two points actually, when set up properly. I haven't gotten around to building Nanook's "219" but I think you should...
I have heard the "two points" description but I can't get the geometry to work out in my head to fit it.
Doesn't really matter
Doesn't really matter
Linear tracking tone arms can be about as diy friendly as the designs already discussed here. There are a few threads you can check out.
I have a couple of modified vintage Souther LTAs that I generally prefer to the 12 inch Schick I also own.
I have a couple of modified vintage Souther LTAs that I generally prefer to the 12 inch Schick I also own.
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