[Sonnova]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:04:18 -0700, ScottW2 wrote
(in article ):

On Jun 23, 7:09*am, "Harry Lavo" wrote:

Stylus assembly compliance is also a factor and there is no hard-and-fast
rule about that EITHER.

Agree, but they and tip mass work together to affect trackability, along
with cantilever design and damping and stylus design. *These things must be
optimized as a system.

I've owned a couple of Shure carts, a Signet and now an AT OC9
on a variety of tables.

While I've seen different results in tracking on my test record, I've
never at all felt that any of the carts exhibited tracking deficiency
with music. As such, tracking performance has never been high on my
list of cart concerns. It seems to be a solved problem.
Anyone know of any current carts that have unacceptable tracking
performance?

ScottW



No. Like you say, it's a solved problem. Any modern cartridge (except perhaps
the very cheapest, and I don't even know that for sure - no pun intended)
will track anything one can throw at it, and track it well. Anything above
that is just overkill and marketing malarky (put out a test record that has a
tracking "test track" that is way beyond what anyone would ever encounter in
any publicly released recording, and then build a cartridge that will track
it and promote the hell out of that ability).