The mass of the arm bouncing on the stylus cantilever suspension causes it to resonate as a system, either at around 12Hz or 15Hz depending which of the two dominant theories is We call this "distortion" - it is a bad thing. Very quick arm movements, excited by surface ripples or vibrational energyĬaused by the cartridge's imperfect (inevitably) suspension system, are very undesirable as the cartridge will also convert these non linear, non musical, movements to electrical signalsĪs though they were music which they are not. Spindle eccentricity while permitting the arm to be dragged towards the centre of the record by the stylus following the relentless inward spiral. In a nutshell, slow arm movements are desirable to ride warps and tolerate There have been attempts to control the movement of pick up arms since the early days of microgroove LPs.
More importantly than how the words sound is how the product affects the sound. That introductory paragraph will be lost in the translation on the Italian pages of. "It is not pedantic to demand correct use of English" insist a small but insistent minority of the plebs chorus, stage left. Pickup arm fundamental resonance or vehicle suspensions, the different spellings either go unnoticed or infuriate pedants.
To describe reducing the system Q (boinginess) probably depends on where you learned to speak English. Whether the correct term is damping or dampening in mass/spring systems complying with Hooke's law (remember from school physics F=-kx) price: £9.99GBP or 12.40€ 0r $15.60US ( YMMV)Īvailability: specialist audio shops and ebay Product: Audio Origami Pure Silicon Damping Fluid KitĪpprox. Audio Origami Arm damp(en)ing Fluid Adding a damp proof course to your pick up arm