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
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Dear cleeds: You are right that I don’t know " almost " nothing about you but your Agon posts speaks for you.

Now and only for your records: This is only part of some very interesting learni9ng experiences I had with some USA Agoner’s that I visited during my USA trips down there where the more important experience was to meet beautiful/wonderful gentlemans where all of them are very well estableshed/regarded audiophiles ( you can contact all of them just to check. ):

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/our-home-system-how-good-it-is

in that link you can read something of one of my trips and can read what some of those gentlemans posted about.


https://forum.audiogon.com/users/fcrowder

https://forum.audiogon.com/users/albertporter


I was two times with these gentlemans ( Houston and Dallas. ) and in both times with different systems at their home places.


https://forum.audiogon.com/users/vetterone

https://forum.audiogon.com/users/thom_mackris


I meets those gentlemans and other persons in other trip. Tom is the designer and manufacturar of the well regarded Galibier TTs ( Denver. ) and I think I heard there the Schroeder tonearm other than in Austin with mab33.
Vetterone lives in Idaho and owns a great audio system!.


https://forum.audiogon.com/users/sbank

https://forum.audiogon.com/users/dougdeacon

https://forum.audiogon.com/users/slipknot1


with those gentlemans I was in other trip when I was around Philadelphia/Boston are and I meet ther with several audiophiles. Even in PHI we had a meeting with the audio association there where I meet directly too with Mr. Walker because Joe´s system has a Walker TT.


https://forum.audiogon.com/users/pryso

https://forum.audiogon.com/users/ctm_cra

https://forum.audiogon.com/users/elinor


I meet those gentlemans in one of those trips in the San Diego area.


In all those meetings we had a wonderful time talking, listening, enjoying and learning of what we all like. Even we participated in several live comparison/shoot-outs between different kind of audio items and in San Diego we did it in Pryso home ( and other audiophile homes. ) and in the major audio distributor home/office in San Diego where was full of people whom attend to my visit. I hpe that pryso can put some memories of those meetings in San Diego where I was for 4 days ( in one of my trips there. ).
I was too in Atlanta, LA and NY doing the same.

These gentlemans hosted me at their homes, I was tehre at least 2 days at each home with several listening hours with.


I take advantage from this post to again say to all of them ( and many more. ) thank’s for your hospitality, thank’s to gave me the opportunity to know human beens of that/your caliber. All of you very very special people.


Please name it any cartridge, TT, electronics ( tube and SS ) or speakers you know and can be sure I listen down there and many more!!!!


Regards and enjoy the music,
R.
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Dear ct0517: "" The ET2 can be tweaked to sound like other tonearms. It is a tweakers delight, and this is why so many can go wrong with it. I can make it sound closer to a Fidelity Research 6 series tonearm too. Are you interested to know how to do this ?  """

appreciated but no because I have not any more. Normally when " something " is not up to my audio/music priorities I just leave behind and I don't turn my face to it. If in the future happens something extraordinary with that can tell me is a must to listen again then I will.

Btw, make to performs as the 66?, that's not for me . If I need something is a tonearm that does not performs as the 66, as a fact I still have the 64 that I use it when I have to remember how thigs won't/can't sounds.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.