Já saíram da fazer de testes e estão prestes a ir para o mercado os novos braços da Reed com a denominação de "Reed MAG Tonearm".
Ficam aqui em primeira mão para Portugal as imagens e explicação das inovações aplicadas no MAG.
Magnetic tonearm
The next step in our tonearm design just left the testing phase, it is the
Reed MAG tonearm.
This model brings the magnetic antiskating technology which eliminates the
noises brought up by the traditional
mechanical antiskating. Moreover it has variable antiskating force
(depending on the cartridges distance from the center
of the disk) which gives you the most precise counterbalance for the skating
force.
Secondly we are introducing our dynamic magnetic damper for dampment of
tonearms vertical motion. The damping helps out
a lot if you are listening to a record which is not perfectly flat. The
dampers operation is based on Lenz's Law when a
neodymium magnet (located far away enough from the wires to prevent
interferences) moves in a silver tube. The damping
coefficient is set to 3:1 which means that the tonearm's free oscillation
stoping time is thee times greater compared to
the damped one. The damping depends on the tonearms motion acceleration.
With current cartridges the damping coefficient exceeding 5:1 can result
in sound distortion.
Reed MAG can be also coupled our laser system as Reed QM.
