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Awhile back I reached out to Jeff at Audiomods about the possibility of getting a low mass arm for my Ortofon MC2000. Jeff did some figuring and if he dipped into his inventory of previous generation Audiomods parts he could build me an arm that came in at the single digit mass range. Does this mean 9 grams? Or lower? I wasn't going to try to brow beat him into an exact number, but I knew I had a viable candidate that could balance the heavy 11 gram cartridge. 

Well, life got in the way and there were some unexpected events. But last week I decided to reach out to Jeff and see if this could still happen. I got a yes answer. So I am on the build schedule for an arm in early August. Will have the VTA micro adjuster, and all silver wiring. 

Looking forward to this project as the MC2000 is one of my favorite cartridges. It does certain things that very few if any cartridges can do. I thought I might be able to live without if with the Verismo on one table, and the Proteus getting situated on the SOTA when the OL arm arrives. But I decided I just did not want to have this cartridge on the sidelines. So here we go. 

neonknight
hilroy48
153 posts
 

Did you get your tone arm? Any updates.

lewm
12,995 posts
 

Of the 7-8 tonearms I own, the Triplanar works best of all with my MC2000 (with the qualification that I have not mounted the MC2000 on the Viv Float, yet).  I think the estimated effective mass of the TP alone, which would include its integral headshell of course, is 11g.  I don't know where I got that number, so if I am in error, please correct me. Other tonearms I have tried include Reed 2A, Kenwood L07J (the integral tonearm on the L07D TT), Dynavector DV505.  The others I own need not apply (obviously too high in effective mass or not mounted on any tt).

neonknight OP
387 posts
 

@hilroy48

Yes the low mass version of the Model 6 has arrived. Works well the MC2000 I have But another goodie arrived from Jeff that I have installed at the moment. Sorry about the arm board condition, that one has trialed a few arms. Fortunately I can use it for this project.

This version is going to be available on the site in a bit. It is more than just adding 3 inches to an existing Model 6. The yoke is modified. The thickness of the inner and outer carbon fiber wands are changed, along with the number of stiffeners. Of course the headshell and bearing offsets are also different. 

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