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FR64S tonearm overhaul

I just bought a nice Fidelity Research FR64S tonearm off Ebay to have a second vintage arm for my SPUs and maybe a few FR cartridges in the future. The arm is in great condition but still has the original copper wiring.

I am looking to refurbish the arm myself and was thinking about rewiring it with Ikeda silver and a new Cardas DIN plug. Does anyone have experience with the sonics of silver vs. copper wiring in the FR arms? What other things should be replaced and where can I source the parts?
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luisma31
516 posts
 
Luis, I'd like to recommend you to replace arm lift on FR-64s, got mine from Italy, made especially for FR-64s,

Thank you Chak, I already did based on your recommendation from before, wonderful piece...

steelhead
318 posts
 
Congratulations on your score

My buddy has the FR64S silver wired and it is a fantastic arm.  He basically gifted me a FR64FX with the B60 base when I got his SOTA sapphire (he had two).

The  Zu phono cable was very cost effective and I used it for decades.  I upgraded to a Cosmos and retained my FR arm and base.  I bought a Triode Wire Labs phono cable as I use Triode wire labs for interconnects and power cables.

Not trying to be a shill but I would let the Zu Xaus phono cable go for any reasonable offer.  It has tons of reproduction so should be broke in for sure.  It has a fraying by the ground wire but it does not expose the wire or affect performance.  

If interested pm me.  If not, no problem and enjoy.  A great arm and true classic.  Hell I still run FR cartridges (rebuilt nowadays of course)

Cheers


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chakster
6,144 posts
 
Zu Audio cables are great (speaker cables, interconnects, phono cables). Zu Mission or Mission mkII are cool. 
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