NEW OLD SCHOOL ~ NOS, Jurij’s Newly Conceived Tonearm…

[jurijsredins]

Greetings, Arndt! I completely agree with you that wood, due to its structure, can dampen the ringing of a spring. however, I cannot say with certainty which wood will give the best result. on the one hand, a loose, close to amorphous structure is preferable. but perhaps dense homogeneous wood, like IPE, will create anti-phase oscillations in relation to the parasitic oscillations of the spring? I have no answer! I really hope that experiments will allow us to establish this empirically. best regards, Jurij.

[wenig watt]

Yes Jurij,
here we are at a point. You can build and measure, or build and listen. You definitely need experience, time and discipline to recognise and document empirical progress. Since I work most of the time to earn money, I don't have the opportunity to do slow empirical research. I borrow ideas, combine them and let myself be surprised.
The fact that Ipe and Panzerholz/Delignit have particularly good damping has been established by others. Korf has carried out extensive measurements on tonearms, for which I am very grateful.
As long as there is no comprehensive physical world view for tonearms, we can make do with Newton, Korf and Bryan, and of course with our intuition.
For me there was also a Russian who experimentally determined the drag of pickups in his living room and Ledermann who propagates cactus needles for pickups, and of course...
Shipbuilding engineer specialising in vibrations, Döhmann who researches record players, Richard who has rethought the tonearm, everyone who thinks through and designs the world...

With best regards

Arndt