Tonearm ranking
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Gian my friend,
I like to eat different kinds of food. Italian, Spanish, Japanese, French, Thai, Indian, etc., when they cook well any of them can be best in different occasion. So as tt, arm, cart setups.
Kind regards,
Tang
Today Dietrich the Axiom tonearm guy came to redo my setup of Axiom/Palladian. He did his things while I was having meeting most of the day. An hour ago I entered the room to listen. The sound is now excellent. This combo is now playing on the same level as my SAT combos, but with different tone. More body than Opus and Coralstone on SAT. High extension is not as good but more majestic in bottom end. Energy, pace, resolution and innerdetail are all here now. He changed armboard to a new one and gave me titanium headshell screws. When I left the room, He was measuring distances and dimension of my EMT and said he could customize the Axiom to fit my 927 from the rear.
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Tang
Nice photo.
That protractor is neither a Uni-DIN nor a Smartractor. Does DB have a new alignment tool?
TA-9000 maybe even rarer than other arms mentioned here. I only see owners of Acoustical Signature turntable use TA-9000. Two Invectus in Thailand came equipped with these arms. The owners of these Invectus also dont have arms that are mentioned here. There is not much info about it available. How do you like it on your Ascona?
Kind regards,
Tang
It is stunningly good in my room with my system but I don't have much to compare it to on that basis. I am considering getting a second TA-9000 because I want to us a second cartridge. The Atlas can be a bit bright on some recordings although it is an incredibly revealing and dynamic cartridge on the right recordings. I was just looking for some relative comparisons of the TA-9000 on the same systems.
Considering one of these,
http://https://audio-creativeshop.nl/product/audio-creative-groovemaster/
Titanium arm model natch.
http://https://audio-creativeshop.nl/product/audio-creative-groovemaster/
Titanium arm model natch.
I just ordered one of those GrooveMaster II arms in Titanium. Interested in how it will mate with Koetsu.
Out of curiosity what is the ranking of SME 3012 series II, I have one new in box that is at least 30 years old and I don't think that I will ever use it. Currently I am using SME 3009.
Hi Ked.
I think it is very difficult to answer (especially to the first point).
When i use a tonearm on a turbate with a cartridge and i find it is very good in a system, i am not really sure i will have (for some aspects) the same result with another system (when i say system i mean: hifi equipment and room).
So in my opinion the final listening beeing influenced by so many elements must be mediate among different listening in different systems.
In so many (sob!) years of trying and listening i really never decided wich was my preferred tonearm allways.
Ease of mounting... i think perhaps VIV, Durand, Triplanar (and also others of course).
Ease of Adjustment: i think perhaps Versa, Eminent Technology, Graham Phantom.
Did you try the Groovemaster with Koetsu? If so, which Koetsu and how well did the combination work?
I had a bad hum and had to sell the arm. For $2500 I can't imagine a better tonearm than the FR-64S for a Koetsu.
