Tonearm recommendation


Hello all,
Recently procured a Feickert Blackbird w/ the Jelco 12 inch tonearm.
The table is really good, and its a keeper. The Jelco is also very good, but not as good as my Fidelity Research FR66s. So the Jelco will eventually hit Ebay, and the question remains do I keep the FR66s or sell that and buy something modern in the 5-6 K range. My only point of reference is my old JMW-10 on my Aries MK1, so I don't know how the FR66s would compare to a modern arm. So I'd like to rely on the collective knowledge and experience of this group for a recommendation.

Keep the FR66s, or go modern in the 5-6K range, say a Moerch DP8 or maybe an SME.

Any and all thoughts and opinions are of course much appreciated.

Cheers,      Crazy Bill
wrm0325
Folkfreak
It is easy to set up once you get a handle on how to do it and once set up allows excellent and repeatable fine tuning of VTF, SRA and Azimuth -- the latter via adjusting the height of the "outrigger" that controls the lateral roll.

@Folkfreak

I am curious what you mean by the word "repeatable" in your sentence ? Looking to learn. thank you.

Lewm
Even Durand has now eschewed the use of wood and gone to some sort of synthetic material for their arm wands. Seems odd, because the company was founded on the principle that their particular choice of wood from a particular species of tree was key.

Far out Lewm .........TGIF
Dear syntax: I stopped for almost 3 years to post/participate in Agon forums and it's incredible ( as people say in my country: " a case for the spider " ) that people like you still are hevy sticky to the same distortions generators proudly showing your very high ignorance level and I said proudly because that's " recorded " through your virtual system.
It's pity that peple like you just do not grow-up and you have to give thank's for that to your audio advisers/sellers that are very happy to take money from you, you are the audio paradise for any audio seller. Nothing wrong with me, go a head: to where? because you just don't move anywhere.

Now, you came to this thread not as a contributor that have something on hand to help and if you want to do it please do it a favor and a favor to all of us and answer this question:

in what way or how your 66 distortion generator item helps for the cartridge can shows it at its best? where belongs its " wonderful " advantages " and which are those advantes and why is that way?

You are or at least think you are an expert and for sure you can give us the ight answers. Thank's in advance for that.

In the other side your you-tube link is the third time you posted on Agon and coming from you has no effect in me. Here too you can go on! and please show here your expertise and enrich the thread.

Friends, I know that this gentleman will not post about but we will see if this time disclose him-self.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.
Dear ochremoon:  """  not another boring digital vs analog one! """ ????

That vs exist NO  any more what today exist are two valuable alternatives: digital that's the one that performs nearer to the recording with the lower distortions and the analog one that performs a litle more away from the recording and with higher distortions.


My advise is that if we can then try to enjoy both and I repeat this: if in our system we don't like what we listenen through the digital alternative or what we listen through a well damped tonearm then we have somewhere a heavy system problem and we must to find out where and make the right changes in our beloved home audio system.


Regards and enjoy the music,
R.


To Fleib and anyone else who was apparently offended by my post.  I do apologize for going off topic.  I was responding to Raul.  But I too dislike the old analog vs digital shouting match, and I let myself fall into that trap for a moment.  Mea culpa. Probably Raul himself did not mean to go there.

However, if there was something else I wrote that was provocative in a negative way, please clue me in.