manualblock, I have found a lot of supporters on several sites. That was a nice article on TNT. Also Vinylengine.com, Steve Hoffmans site, Audio Assylum, Audio Karma, and Audiogon, all have a ton of supporters. Of course Kabusa.com, has all kinds of mods for the SL1200.
Yes; I'm getting creaky, must get out more. What do you see that is new on the mid-level price wise tables out there? I wandered into the Kabusa site and liked the idea of the silicon paddle mod and of course the outboard PS. I read some of Steve Hoffman and I find him down to earth and very knolwledgable regarding tech stuff. Audio Karma you need to wade through some silliness to get to the good stuff; I guess thats true everywhere though. So what do you use for your personal listening pleasure?
Don't forget that besides a rigid and low friction mount, the arm must keep the cartridge aligned properly to the record. I've owned (now gathering dust) a few arms that simply don't allow for proper cartridge alignment at all.
Building your own arm would be quite a challenge. I have an old Lustre GST-801 arm. I wish I could bend an arm tube to replace the original, wrong angle design. Funny how there are some beautifully made arms, with all the 'goodies' like dynamic balance, and great bearings, but poor geometry. Sounds like you have a great idea for a group build project.
Couple people on the net; as I am sure you've seen, have tried it. All straight arm designs. I guess things like transfer function of materials and such would play the biggest part. I once spoke to the guy who owned Hammer Dynamics and he said he built his out of a No.2 pencil; suspended by a rubber band from a simple scaffold. As the arm arced acrross the record the rubber band would twist and apply anti-skate; or counter-rotational force. It was stabilised in the horizontal plane by an eye-hook tied to a massive teflon sleeve floating in a bath of silicon. Actually; may be too much work now that I think about it. The bearing on the Technics arm seems pretty close tolerance.
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