¨such arms must be 5g mass. Jelco mass is much higher, it’s for mid compliance, with heavier headshell can be used for high-ish compliance cartridges.¨ Isn,t it the opposite, with lighter headshells it could be used with high compliance cartridges?
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"such arms must be 5g mass. Jelco mass is much higher, it’s for mid compliance, with heavier headshell can be used for high-ish compliance cartridges." Isn't it the opposite, with lighter headshells it could be used with high compliance cartridges? When i said about 5g tonearm mass i mean with headshell like Denon DA-401 tonearm or Infinity Black Widow (even lighter). When the mass of the tonearm is high you can't detract much using lighter headshell, it will be a problem to find a nice headshell lighter than 8g, and the Jelso stock shell is probably 10g ? But it's easier to add mass with heavy headshell. However, the problem often is counterweight own weight too. Chakster I do have 750EB and with heavy (not original) headshell it’s in the region of 20 with test disk. Thanks, i am not familiar with TK-850 model, i think 750 series is the most popular and i remember long discussion about it's mass, so i expected something like 15-21g. FR64S for similar price or LESS than Jelco? On what planet? Planet Tokyo, Japan Paid about $1200 for my FR-64s , as i said in my post FR will cost more. But i forgot the price for Jelco, i think not every Jelco was $500, some of them are more expensive (latest models) ? |
Yes, the upper end Jelco's are more expensive. My TK-850L MKII was just north of $1000 with shipping, this was the best price I can find. The fit and finish on these new arms are excellent, I would think there is very limited number of MKII's available now that they are closing up shop. https://www.jelco-ichikawa.co.jp/cn3/tk-850l_mk2.html |
The original TK-850M is a very good tonearm, I purchased one last year and was in the process of picking up one of the new MkII arms a couple of days ago when Jelco decided to cease production.I am still trying to get another TK-850M MkII but since Jelco's shutdown news the prices have jumped up by about $200.00 from last week. |
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