Ammonite Audio
06-08-2016, 11:05
Here's my newly acquired Fidelity Research FR64S tonearm, installed on the old TD-124 with an armboard kindly donated by Tom (Montesquieu of this parish). I'd wanted one of these arms for some time since the Miyajima cartridges do like a bit of mass, and the FR64S has plenty of mass. The physical quality of this arm is astonishing - I shudder to think what it would cost to produce nowadays. The arm needs a good clean, but it all works and the tracking force dial is 100% accurate, which is very impressive after at least 30 years. Here it is, with a new Miyajima Waza cartridge that has just joined my demo fleet (the Oyaide headshell is being used because the FR one presently has no wires):
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