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Agreed. It got a good review in HFN.Originally Posted by walpurgis
I've rather taken a liking to the looks of the Abis SA-1 tonearm.
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Asking prices for Philips 9710M full range speakers are getting very silly. Over £420 asked here, excluding shipping, VAT & duty. It is a US listing.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/pair-of-vi...oAAOSwBoZZdjOg
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as opposed to one that looks like its been made in a school woodworking class
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Looks near-identical to the Dynavector tonearms, one of which Martin T (ex of this parish) uses. I presume that Abis are rather like Jelco, in that they make arms for high-end manufacturers to essentially 're-badge' as their own?I've rather taken a liking to the looks of the Abis SA-1 tonearm.
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That's hideous, Barry - I'm surprised at you!
Wooden arms have never floated my boat - too flimsy looking and low-mass for my needs. I prefer the more 'agricultural' variety!
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
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Are they insane? Garrard DD75 turntable, bid up to £322 so far. Ends shortly. I wouldn't give more than £20 for one, if I even wanted it!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Ga...kAAOSwy5BZngh0
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It'll outperform your DD turntable.
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A lot less 'hideous' than the Alphason IMO, and far more professional looking - but then we ought not be swayed by looks alone. Wood has very good damping properties, but has only been used in a few arms (the only vintage arm that come to mind is the ADC 40), but I believe there are some recent modern arms that use wood (the Schroeder (?)).That's hideous, Barry - I'm surprised at you!
Wooden arms have never floated my boat - too flimsy looking and low-mass for my needs. I prefer the more 'agricultural' variety!
Marco.
I suspect it's more difficult (expensive) to fashion and drill out a wooden arm than it is to bend a metal tube.
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It may look superficially similar to the Dynavector, but the Dynavector is a bi-axial arm: the pivot for vertical motion are not co-located with those handling horizontal movement. As such the Dynavector has a considerably lower effective mass in the vertical plane (~ 6g I think), than it does in the horizontal plane (~30g).
Whilst the Abis does have slightly dissimilar values, they are closer (19/26g vert/horiz) because the pivot points are closer.
The Abis is made for a Japanese distribution company called Silbatch' presumably on an OEM basis. I could well be made by Jelco (who I suspect also make the Ortofon badged arms for Ortofon, but I could be wrong).
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