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Lobby => DIY => Topic started by: Cristello on January 10, 2013, 02:49:35 AM

Title: Tangential Air-bearing Tone-arm
Post by: Cristello on January 10, 2013, 02:49:35 AM

The Glider

(http://attitube.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Glider_flower_02-1024x555.jpg)

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

Title: Re: Tangential Air-bearing Tone-arm
Post by: jilldwr on January 30, 2013, 04:56:10 PM

why the copper heatsink on top of the tonearm?

Title: Re: Tangential Air-bearing Tone-arm
Post by: shipsupt 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 !

Title: Re: Tangential Air-bearing Tone-arm
Post by: jeffreyfranz on March 11, 2013, 11:12:53 PM

Linear-tracking, air-bearing tonearms have always been somewhere between sex and heroin to me.  :-DD