Tonearms

We still encounter preamps that won't drive power amps (or have so much gain they are noisy), speaker cables that won't fit speakers without adapters or extensive fudging, and turntable bases I that aren't deep enough to accommodate half of the tonearms on the market. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I remember being awed the first time I saw the Squad's stapled catalog, way back in 1982 or '83: there was page after page of detailed descriptions of how Steve could make Ittok tonearms, or Quad 405 amplifiers, or Spatial Coherence preamplifiers, or ❋ Unknown (2009)

He died in 2006, but his son, Cameron, has carried on, and today SME is heavily invested in the medical and automotive fields-and still builds turntables and tonearms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I had no need for the brass pillar (to use with other tonearms) as I intended to use the Kuzma arm and it slides right into the base. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Stogi tonearm did the job well and I don't have any complaints with its performance although I don't have a lot of experience comparing tonearms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Patented interchangeable aluminum tonearm system includes both straight and S-shaped tonearms ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also there isn't enough room under the plinth to mount many tonearms-Rega owners have had to lifts their turntables up on stilts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Graveyard Blues came out nicely, though I had to cut a little more off the highs than I'd have liked, owing to elevated surface noise at the end. 78 collectors are used to last-part-of-the-record surface noise, something we can thank to tracking error caused by the arc-style movement of most tonearms, old and new, as they travel across the record. ❋ Unknown (2008)