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    Ordering a Bokrand Tonearm

    I purchased a brass ortofon collar mount from him on May 22nd. Last email communication from him through his yahoo email was June 5th. Said he would be getting it from his factory and would ship it out that week. Sent about 3 or so follow up emails since but radio silence. ¯\_(?)_/¯
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    What turntables do you use? Pictures would be nice as well :-)

    haha, hey! same to you. ;)
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    What turntables do you use? Pictures would be nice as well :-)

    AR ES-1 upgrades: Heavy duty spring kit and delrin pulley from vinyl nirvana. Alfred Bokrand 9” banana tonearm with Ortofon SPU #1E
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    Ordering a Bokrand Tonearm

    So the cartridge and head shell only have a combined weight of 16 gms. The heavy counterweight is a hefty 188 gms which would not make it ideal to achieve a 2 gm vtf.
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    Ordering a Bokrand Tonearm

    Installed the arm late last night on the ES-1. The zavfino tonearm cable arrived today so I’ll be plugging it in later on after work. Right now I have the single brass 77gm counterweight on it for the sumiko songbird mc /Yamamoto HS-3 head shell combo. Eventually I’ll probably go with an spu...
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    Ordering a Bokrand Tonearm

    Thanks for the recco! I decided to go for the Mahone.
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    Ordering a Bokrand Tonearm

    So my arm finally arrived today. 2 day transit time from Spain to New York via DHL. Picked up on Tuesday and arrived this afternoon. Amazing! All in all, it took 5 weeks from ordering directly from eBay to shipment. A tad longer than the 10 day turnaround time originally quoted haha. The arm...
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    Ordering a Bokrand Tonearm

    Ok, so I heard back from Alfred this afternoon and he scheduled a pickup for the arm on Tuesday. He sent over the DHL shipment info as well. Stoked to be putting this on my ES-1 :)
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    Ordering a Bokrand Tonearm

    Does Alfred send you tracking info? The last message I received from him through eBay was on Sept 27th. He said he would have it shipped out by the end of that week (Sep 30th- Oct 1st) but I have not heard anything from him since that last message. cheers, J
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    Ordering a Bokrand Tonearm

    I actually just ordered one like 10 min ago via ebay direct message after a back and forth with Alfred. He's making me a 9" banana version of the ortfon arm with an sme collar mount for my ES-1 table. He said he has 18 tonearms in the queue currently but offered a rush production time of 10...

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