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Author Topic: Tangential Air-bearing Tone-arm  (Read 1418 times)

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Cristello

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Tangential Air-bearing Tone-arm
« on: January 10, 2013, 02:49:35 AM »
The Glider



http://attitube.com/diy-record-player/diy-tonearms/air-bearing/

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My recent discovery of an old Technics SL-Q350 in the basement storage room has been a cause for much research on my part into high-end analogue audio reproduction.  Down the slippery slope I went, dragging my wallet and its precious cargo out from the dank underpinnings of yesterdays trousers...

Then, out of the somewhat dim hallway that is the Internet, a savior arrived!
That savior was called... DIY!
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jilldwr

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Re: Tangential Air-bearing Tone-arm
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2013, 04:56:10 PM »
why the copper heatsink on top of the tonearm?
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Re: Tangential Air-bearing Tone-arm
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2013, 05:15:51 PM »
From the link:
The device above the Lyra is not a Shamanic stone that cures all the diseases of your system or soul, but just a copper computer RAM sink, used as a weight to compensate for the very small effective mass of the Glider tonearm !
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Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

jeffreyfranz

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Re: Tangential Air-bearing Tone-arm
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2013, 11:12:53 PM »
Linear-tracking, air-bearing tonearms have always been somewhere between sex and heroin to me.  :-DD
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