Question on FR 66s

Dear Halcro: Where are your facts? Why try to distract from the subject.

Btw, is this your close friend and hero/Dertonarm?:

http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?6502-Refund-problem

It is clear yo have nothing on hand. You already exposed your knowledge level on the subject!

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

Dear Suteetat: Why so many protractors you own?
Dover advise is really fine. You don't lose nothing trying it and can have some additional fun.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

Dear Thuchan, 'Who told you I got my Arche,( etc.) for free?'
Well, dear Thuchan, I don't use question marks as often as some Aussie but 'it' was there at the end of my hypothetical statement. As a (guest) member of the 'German group' I assumed 'they probable share many things together' so IF Thuchan got the Axiom for free why not me? To put it otherwise: nobody told me this. I invented the possibility in my own interest. However I got the Arche honestly for free probable because my 'hard cach' is not as 'hard' as yours .

Regards,

Dear Raul,
in the last 12 months you have stressed your ambition showing our community what you think about the FR designs, the SAEC WE 8000 and some other benchmark designs in phono-business. I was very surprised that you proclaim that all these designs are of mediocre sound capability and all the guys out there using these designs keep their houses full of distortion while yours is clean...

I don't mind that you have different assessments on these products and I tolerate everyone using and enjoying his "own best gear". But don't you realize that I cannot take these remarks you are giving in the last months as serious anymore??

Regarding the WE 618B you need telling me when you have discovered this item on ebay for what price? Maybe you can also tell me in which tonearm/table combination you were using the Western Electric SUT. I then might be able to assess your remarks that the WE is of low quality...

BTW among serious audiophiles in some European countries your assessment of the WE 618B (as of the FR-66s and the SAEC WE 8000) did raise the same questions I have.

If you are feeling I am questioning your integrity this is your assessment. I am just putting questions on some phono units and like to exchange other opinions. I am not putting it personal. Hope you understand this.

enjoy the music

Raul, When you have calmed down sufficiently, I would like to know what you think about my experience that suggests best sound is achieved when the cartridge is aligned according to the geometry for which the tonearm was designed. That means, for the vintage Japanese tonearms like my Dynavector DV505 (and in theory like the FR tonearms), the best sounding geometry is Stevenson. This is my personal observation with only the one tonearm (DV505) and two different cartridges. And it is only my opinion based on listening, only. I am NOT saying that Stevenson gives the lowest overall mathematically predicted "distortion". I am only reporting my experience, and I attributed the finding to the fact that with the DV505 one has to twist the cartridge in the headshell, in order to use anything but Stevenson. There is reason to believe that this could introduce a new source of distortion that over-rides tonearm geometry. I wrote about this on VE.