Fidelity Research FR14 as good Sonically as FR64 or Jelco750?

@rauliruegas Thanks for that information. I know a private guy who has one for sale for 550 or would do a partial trade for nagaoka mp50plus  debating if should pay straight cash or do the trade

Too expensive for an unknown quantity. Get a new Jelco 550 or better yet, an 850. 

Dear @vinny55 : Jelco is better tonearm that many of us could imagine and is a well damped design and you can get some kind of warranty if something is wrong with. Warranty that you have not with that vintage tonearm that additional is not a well damped design an vintage internal wiring where the Jelco is a " fresh " one about.

Could be that @noromance  is right.

R.

Vinny, I'm afraid that the FR14 is rather a rare bird and was never accorded the attention given to the FR64 or FR66, in S or FX versions.  Therefore, you are probably not going to elicit a lot of opinions from persons who actually have owned and used it.  This is not at all to say it is not a good tonearm.  Jelco tonearms get a lot of positive comments on this and other forums, and they are in the same price range, more or less.  Add to that the new-ness of a Jelco, and I would have to agree with the other guys.

Anyway, I would be leery of anyone's opinion on a tonearm, unless it's very negative and the negativity is justified by specific statements.  Most of us have a strong listener bias, a tendency to at least "like" what we paid for, whether we admit it or not.