Tonearm recommendation

Asvjerry - Popcorn, anyone?

Asvjerry - for me it is too early for popcorn. This is a morning thing mostly. It helps to take my mind off of crumbling investments. So freshly ground coffee beans for me. Any opinion on where Oil is headed ?

Crazy time of year -mid Feb - being stuck inside with winter. One risks falling back into audiophile mode. I am tempted to go visit Raul in sunny Mexico (if he will have me). He seems to be quite the party-er according to Pryso. For fun I could pack up my tonearm, if he will clear a space for it on one of his TT's. But I fear the tonearm's life support system will not survive the trip. :^(

As I am sure you know Asvjerry, the forums are like a poker game of opinions. The trump card is real experience. But some like to play this game here with their cards not showing (face down). How is one to share info and learn if your cards aren't showing? Good for you Asvjerry for showing a virtual system.

@ the OP CrazyBill, I will repeat what I said at the start - keep what you have and enjoy the music. I am down to a couple pivot arms now. I am not a tonearm collector, and I was in a situation that I had to sell one; either the DV505 or the FR64s. The FR64s was easier to sell, and my son thought the DV505 looked really cool. So I kept the DV505. I also learned while trying to sell the DV505 for a short period, that some audiophiles are intimidated by that thing.   

I heard a rumor the Fuser thread suffered its first casualty. A burned out filament. And just when I was getting ready to drop one of those shiny new babies into my DAC.

Cheers

Dear pryso: Thank's for your post. Yes, I have dificult to explain exactly what I'm thinking and with that kind of dificult there are a misunderstood in what I really mean it.

In the other side, I know that my life audio experiences are diferent from other people and mainly because I'm " hyperactive " in the quest of better quality system performance. Post as cleeds one that I posted a hystory/a chine tale or a lier is normal way to think in other people because they don't know me. 

Maybe many agoner's already had not only the kind of experiences I posted of my USA trips but even more wide than that but I had and have " thousands " of especial learning experiences here in México too through at least 6 of the principal audio distributors that are very close friens. Through them I experienced " hundreds " of audio equipment directly in my home: FM Acoustics, Audio Note Kondo, VPI, Levinson, Revel, JL Audio, Air Tight, Krell, Pass, Audio research, Wilson, JM Labs, Cello, Sonus Faber, Esoteric, Dsc, Gryphon, Apogue, Sound Labs, Sota, etc, etc, more and  more.

My way of " audio play " with out no single rules, not to be sticky to anything and " always " thinking in non-ortodox/out of the box way always gave me invaluable learning rewards. I always am asking me: why if I do this or that? and I try it and many times those experiences were lessons of what not do and why. Some things that I learned I learnen by accident, because I made mistakes and through it I learned.


To make take action with  changes in my system I trust is no one but me. I try everything, many of what people post through the net to understand what they mean or if really is right or not.

Other variable that helps a lot in that here in México we don't have extreme excess of money to spend in hobbies, so we have to use a lot of " imagination " to obtain the best quality performance of what we have with the minimum investment.

Again thank's and as you said: go a head with tonearms.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

ct0517

  You could neither handle the air nor the water in Mexico City!  But you might see the sun through the red haze in the air.

Regards,

cto517

There is no "theory" in my post, just practical experience.

When you say lesser arms can sound better, were the both arms you heard set up properly?

And how did you know that was in fact true? 

ct...Oil? South.  For the time being, anyway.  The low prices @ the pump simply forestalls our being weaned from the stuff before it becomes rare.  HO:  It'll attain that just about the time the climate really gets everyone's attention, which is when it'll be too late to respond in our species' typically late and lame fashion.  But at that point you and I should be 'comfortably numb'...i.e., Dead...

"A poker game..."  *L*  Sometimes acts like a slamdance, opinions clashing like broadswords, ergo my Middle Ages ref.  As my ears have aged and don't respond to the extremes on nuance anymore, I've tempered my drive to new/newer/newest and resorted to what intrigues or amuses me.  My 'system' has become less 'hi-end', more 'test bed', constrained by budget.

I've been fortunate to have been exposed to things beyond my grasp, to at least experience and learn from that exposure.  I have my own opinions, some not so humble about it all.  I only 'air' them when either asked or at random 'knee-jerk' moments when the muse ice picks a tender spot...*S*

Mexico?  Sounds good to moi'.  GTF outta town, show up @ t'door. ;)  Worse that could happen is to sleep in the car...but you'd be warm. *G*

Leave the tone arm(s) @ home...unless you transport them in one of those alum cases with the foam inserts, like some exotic weaponry.  Which, considering the posts about and above us, gets kinda close...*smirk*

Cheers...