Re: building a tonearm
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 8:57 pm
Well I got it installed and had a cursory listen to it, and initial impressions are very promising.
I had to make a turret for it so it could be installed to run on the lenco. Which was a pain in the arse. I dug out an offcut from a plinth I did to make it
Cx unipivot mk testing by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
Cut a chunk out of this and turned a tower out of it which was an arse as neither ply, MDF or the particleboard core turns very well at all. It ate the chisels because of the heat build up, they had to be sharpened a couple of times while doing it.
Cx unipivot mk testing by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
Turned out ok though, but the install is not the greatest ever. It wants fitting to a deck properly. It was an absolute sod to get the cart adjusted so I had to settle for a close alignment as I simply couldn't see or get at the cart properly to do a proper job. But it suffices for testing.
I could also run both arms at the same time so I could do an A/B between them. So I did.
Cx unipivot mk testing by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
I then took the Goldring E3 cart off and fitted the AT150 sa to the CX so both arms had the same cart on.
Also had to bodge something fr the connector box to stand on and supported the long cables to it on the hook for the curtain tie-back....
Cx unipivot mk testing by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
So, impressions are that it has guts and that it is very stable for a unipivot, I think I got the weight distribution about right. It has a solid and dynamic sound to it, similar to the mk2 had but it seems to be more grippy than I remember that one being. I cant really say much about the treble as the cart alignment was out, but it seems ok so far. It also seems to image really rather well which was unexpected as the mk 2 one was ok but nothing special, and that its easy to place instruments in the image.
for want of a better word, it seems pretty musical, even if that is something of an amorphous term. One mans 'musical' is another mans 'coloured' or whatever other term someone cares to use.
But overall very promising. And not much hum even without an earth
I had to make a turret for it so it could be installed to run on the lenco. Which was a pain in the arse. I dug out an offcut from a plinth I did to make it
Cx unipivot mk testing by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
Cut a chunk out of this and turned a tower out of it which was an arse as neither ply, MDF or the particleboard core turns very well at all. It ate the chisels because of the heat build up, they had to be sharpened a couple of times while doing it.
Cx unipivot mk testing by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
Turned out ok though, but the install is not the greatest ever. It wants fitting to a deck properly. It was an absolute sod to get the cart adjusted so I had to settle for a close alignment as I simply couldn't see or get at the cart properly to do a proper job. But it suffices for testing.
I could also run both arms at the same time so I could do an A/B between them. So I did.
Cx unipivot mk testing by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
I then took the Goldring E3 cart off and fitted the AT150 sa to the CX so both arms had the same cart on.
Also had to bodge something fr the connector box to stand on and supported the long cables to it on the hook for the curtain tie-back....
Cx unipivot mk testing by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
So, impressions are that it has guts and that it is very stable for a unipivot, I think I got the weight distribution about right. It has a solid and dynamic sound to it, similar to the mk2 had but it seems to be more grippy than I remember that one being. I cant really say much about the treble as the cart alignment was out, but it seems ok so far. It also seems to image really rather well which was unexpected as the mk 2 one was ok but nothing special, and that its easy to place instruments in the image.
for want of a better word, it seems pretty musical, even if that is something of an amorphous term. One mans 'musical' is another mans 'coloured' or whatever other term someone cares to use.
But overall very promising. And not much hum even without an earth