Having been fascinated with tone arms since the early seventies, I decided in the early eighties to design my own tangential tone arm. After several attempts which included the reinvention of the Garard Zero-100, I decided to design a pivoting/sliding tone arm. The design of such an arm, allows it to be mounted in the corner of the turn table like an ordinary radial arm. The length of the track becomes ultra short at 1.550" using this approach. The track is overhead and the arm uses an optical servo system, driven by a stepping motor.

Comments

• Anatol
• 19 December 2011 at 08:58AM
• original design, but if you have any noise from the stepper motor, which is transmitted by a needle cartridge

• Elite
• 12 January 2013 at 09:34PM
• Great work also trying my talent at table and t'arm desgin wanted to know if ?I could consult with you on the matter?
  
  Thanks
  Elite-

• Straight Tracker
• 8 February 2013 at 02:44AM
• Hello Anatol,
  
  I did not realize that there were comments until a few days ago.
  
  The step rate of the motor is very low. There is absolutely no noise transmitted, mechanical or electrical.
  
  Thank you for looking at my Tonearm.
  
  Sincerely,
  
  Ralf

• Straight Tracker
• 8 February 2013 at 02:50AM
• Hello Elite,
  
  Thank you.
  
  Yes you may consult with me.
  How will we communicate?
  
  Sincerely,
  
  Ralf