Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14?

Dear @wrm57 : Both EPA 100 are really good tonearms and in any case both needs an internal rewiring. Japan vintage analog items or Yahoo could be the best sites to look for either one.

Differences in between depends of the cartridge you mount and the system resolution but your A90 will perform lovely in either one, the MK2 is more hard to find out.

Now you could look too for the EPA 500 where exist with at least 2 arm pipes, one astraigth and the similar to the EPA 100 S shaped. Build material is similar to the EPA 100 but came with the truly best VTA on the fly tonearm ever made that's the same that comes in the 100MK2.

Differences with the 100 mainly are: bearing is not " ruby jewels " as both 100's but gimbal where the bearing friction stated lower than 7mg instead the 5mg. on the 100. I owned the 500 too and the S shaped pipe is the 250.

R.

@rauliruegas, I missed an EPA-100 Mk2 by an hour yesterday on HiFiDo! It was scarfed up almost immediately upon being listed, and at a good price. Dang!

Many thanks to all who contributed to this thread. I have a lot to think about as I plan my next move, be it to a new cartridge or tonearm--and perhaps into a whole new VTA paradigm. I much appreciate all the patience and wisdom shared.

EPA 100 (both versions) is not suitable for MC carts. BTW Ikeda-san deed

not trust ruby bearings. Reed kinds also use saphire bearings  which have

limited (counter) weight  possibilty. Vidmantas refused to provide me with

heavier kinds because if this ''saphire limitation''.

Addendum. I own Sumiko 800 with 6 couter-weights. Meant for carts

from 6g till 25g. The idea being to get each weight as near as possible

to the pivot. One can deduce ''some'' conclusions from this info

assuming the premise is ''correct''. 

It would be interesting to know if and why  Breuer refused to provide

his customers with additional counter weights?  Alabertporter was his

friend and also importer of Breuer arms in America. He should be 

able to explain the issue. There are ''rummours'' that his bearings

were not from steel.