Has anybody tried the Reed 3P?

Suteetat, are you using the 3P or 3Q? I noticed your system page lists the 3Q.

Suteetat, Now that you provided the context I understand your eearlier question better. The luxury of choice between 7 kinds of wood may look rather confusing but is at this level of performance not accidental. This of course imply consultation in advance with the dealer and/or Vidmantas. I bought the Phase Tech P-3G because of all those awards this cart got in Japan but was not impressed and nearly (re)sold the cart. Then I got my 2A , 12'' with Pernambucco armwand (27 g. eff.mass) and had difficulty to believe what I was hearing. As one say: the match in heaven. However not I but Vidmantas made the wood choice for me.
As you know there is no consensus in our forum about the exact correlation between the arm mass and cart compliance. Halcro, for example, uses his FR-66S with MM
carts while others are searching for some 'widow(s)' to mate. I have this suggestion for you. Try one extra counter weight and use the lighter kind from 9'' for the purpose. That is what I have done. Vidmantas designed new kinds recently but I have no idea if there are also 7 weight kinds. Anyway if Vetterone is your dealer he can also use this occasion to order by Vidmantas one for himself as substitution for the stolen one.

Regards,

Oops, I mean 3Q, sorry. My local dealer is getting 3P in soon and I am waiting to hear it as well.

Nandric, there is a local Reed dealer here in Bangkok so Vetterone is not the local dealer I referred to. Actually, I was the first customer that ordered Reed from the local dealer here. As far as choice of wood is concered, I assume it was Vidmantas who made the recommendation through my local dealer. Or at least somebody from Reed did anyhow. My local dealer also has Miyajima and he suggested for both Koetsu and Miyajima, to use Cocobolo so both of us got Cocobolo.
anyhow, I am perfectly happy with Reed. Just because it does not work out as well with Koetsu as FR, it still works wonderfully with my Air Tight cartridge and I am not sure how many arms out there would mate Koetsu as well as FR does?

PS which earlier question did I ask? Are you talking about another Reed thread from awhile back?

Suttetat, I am sorry. 'Your earlier question' was actually
asked by Lbelchev (04-09-12) but because he also refered
to the FR-64 I mixed you with each other.
I need to add the folloving to my suggestion about the extra counter weight. As you know you can change the effective mass of your FR-64 by changing the headshells. The Reed has no exchangeble headshell so one can change only the counter weights. I own the Sumiko 800 with 5 different counterweight meant for carts from 6g till 22 g. as well the Triplanar with 4 weights. With the added weight from 9" Reed you can experiment with different added weights. By removing the adjustment weight inside this weight you get the min. weight but you can get other weights by sliding the adjustment weight forward or backward.

Regards,