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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
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fleib
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Raul, Nice story, but it's a little hard to believe.  You and your scientist friend are in a lab playing records and watching the stylus with an electron microscope?  This was at normal speed and slow motion.

You can't see a record groove with an electron microscope unless it's painted with conductive coating.  Vinyl is an insulator.  Must have been a pretty big scope to fit the record player. Check this out:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuCdsyCWmt8

Even if your story is true, it's an anecdote about one particular unnamed pair of tonearms. You think there are better arms than the 507 II. Okay we get it, but not everyone agrees with you. I read 2 reviews of the arm and the reviewers bought it from Dynavector.  Probably a decent arm?

What don't you understand about bearing friction and inertia? 

Regards,

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asvjerry
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Rauliruegas, re your 2/14 2:19pm post...Yep, agreed.  An air bearing arm, properly set up, in MHO, just seems to have less 'compromises' in play then any pivoted arm.  As to less bass, well, that's one out of how many other observations that can be brought into play. *shrug*  Even the 'less bass' observation may be subject to the cart mounted on the arm, and *horrors* subject to 'perception' and 'taste' in the material being played.

The comments on tonearms, carts, and 'set up' of these seems to be akin to politics in it's ability to rankle and trigger no less than 5 and growing pages of posts just tickles me.  This 'discussion' starts to remind me of the whole 'tar baby effect' in the Middle East.  They've been going on for centuries.  I'm just happy that some of the more 'excitable' posters don't have access to drones.  It gets ugly enough, and it's just pixels on a screen....

Guy shows up, wants to play a friendly game of catch, and some participants start throwing rocks at each other...AGAIN. *sigh*  'Twas always thus...

I'm going to go listen to some music, have a nice cup of tea, and come back to this thread in a week just to see if it finally imploded AG's server.
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ct0517
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asvjerry
I'm going to go listen to some music, have a nice cup of tea, and come back to this thread in a week just to see if it finally imploded AG's server.


Asvjerry
Sorry to disappoint you, but imo this thread is not even close. Not even on the radar. If I was a betting man, my money is on the Fusers thread to take down this site.
Imagine if you will the posts, stories that would result, if they coordinated a movement, and all of them reversed their fuse directions.... at the same time.

Happy listening.
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ct0517
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Fleib - Frank Schroeder likes the Dynavector tonearm’s bass and had this to say.

The Dynavector’s excellent bass rendition predominatly stems from the (eddy current)damping in the lateral plane. It’s mass distribution is another reason.
Bass below 100Hz is cut in mono, purely lateral...


From here.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/new-schroeder-linear-tonearm-any-thoughts/post?postid=416519#...

I also remember years ago in talking with Bruce Thigpen; I could tell by his voice that he thought it was a really interesting tonearm. I had the DV505 in my main room for quite some time with the ET 2.0 and 2.5. I liked it a lot. But in that room with those at the time 801 monitors; I could hear when the Dyna hit the two sweet spots on the record. Still own it.

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cleeds
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fleib

 " ... Raul, Nice story, but it's a little hard to believe. You and your scientist friend are in a lab playing records and watching the stylus with an electron microscope? This was at normal speed and slow motion..."


It's obviously a fabricated story, fleib. Raul is really confused.


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