Straight Tonearm + Integrated Headshell = Bad for Records???

hey, guys.
a friend of mine gave me his stanton str8-80 turntable. it has a stanton groovemaster cart on it, with a straight tonearm. for some reason i've always thought these type of carts were for s shaped arms only. he says that isn't true.

so... is it bad for records?.

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I wouldn't say it's bad for records, but people generally want to adjust their cartridges their own way.

i hooked the TT up to my receiver and it sounds beautiful. i went to a stereo shop down the street to buy a new stylus and the guy told me it's the best cart stanton make. very happy right now.

I suppose linear-tracking tonearms (where the back of the tonearm slides leftward as the record plays, keeping the tonearm at an exact 90 degrees and thus the stylus at a perfect tangent, which is how records are cut) are best, since the usual pivoting tonearms are inherently slightly out of alignment at the beginning and end of record playback. But in practice this is generally unnoticeable in either record/needle wear or sound quality.

I don't see how S-shaped vs. straight tonearms have any effect on cartridge placement, much less being "bad for records". The cartridge winds up in exactly the same place and angle with either.

yeah, i'm not sure why i thought that... i swear i read it somewhere.