watchnerd
Grand Contributor
Surely, it can't be this simple....
That all the angst of trying to align a cart/arm, and picking the "least bad"option amongst various null point choices, can be rendered moot by a pivoting headshell?
The infamous HFR super killer anti skate track:
Surely somebody would have thought of this decades ago and it would have become a standard by now if it really worked?
I'm having to dig deep in my recollections of mechanical engineering vector math, but....
At a constant lateral stylus pressure, it would be trivial to make a swinging headshell that rights itself.
But the lateral pressure shouldn't be a constant across the entire LP, as the changes in linear velocity across the disk should make the pressure variable, right?
Or maybe it works at super high VTF such that the downward / perpendicular force is so high that the lateral forces can't deflect the stylus left or right?
If it wasn't >$300 I'd buy one to just to try it out and see what happens....
That all the angst of trying to align a cart/arm, and picking the "least bad"option amongst various null point choices, can be rendered moot by a pivoting headshell?
The infamous HFR super killer anti skate track:
Surely somebody would have thought of this decades ago and it would have become a standard by now if it really worked?
I'm having to dig deep in my recollections of mechanical engineering vector math, but....
At a constant lateral stylus pressure, it would be trivial to make a swinging headshell that rights itself.
But the lateral pressure shouldn't be a constant across the entire LP, as the changes in linear velocity across the disk should make the pressure variable, right?
Or maybe it works at super high VTF such that the downward / perpendicular force is so high that the lateral forces can't deflect the stylus left or right?
If it wasn't >$300 I'd buy one to just to try it out and see what happens....