Audio Note arm

[Baggy Trousers]

Originally Posted by Greg.

Decca used to offer a low budget unipivot arm that was a direct replacement for the Goldring and there was another but I don't recall what that was.

I bought the Decca Unipivot arm in the early '70s to replace an aged Garrard Transcription fitted with Tannoy Variluctance cartridge had since 1958. The Decca's magnetic bias arrangement was quite clever but the arm, frankly, was a disaster. Its principal shortcoming was the pendulus maintenance of verticality. This meant that any significant eccentricity of the record pressing causing the arm to laterally oscillate, resulted in a polar moment of inertia creating the verticality (and therefore the stylus/groove interface) to be compromised. The viscous damping arrangement was of more use as a fly trap. It certainly was inferior to the Pickering.

It wasn't long before I replaced the arm with an SME and swapped over the V15/III. Signals went to a Verdik Ten amp. Now, there was a real quality piece of kit.

Funny how these odd references remind one of things long forgotten . . . .