Jelco 750d

[Bigman80]

Hi all,

Does anyone use a Jelco 750D and what is you opinion of it.

Thanks.

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[Dubster68]

Iam loving mine. Best upgrade I ever made to my SL1210. Its a good start to an expensive upgrade path

[ianlenco]

Hi Oliver,
I have the 750L which is much the same apart from the extra inches. Nicely made arm that works well with my MC cartridge. But then you have a Mission 774 which is also a very nice arm , one of those that I wish I still had.

[Bigman80]

It looks very nice indeed. I'm considering making a change although I would imagine Walpurgis would advise me to stick with the mission. Feeling a bit frustrated with it at the minute as I've lost the right channel to a dodgy connection somewhere.

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[mikeyb]

Iam loving mine. Best upgrade I ever made to my SL1210. Its a good start to an expensive upgrade path

That's a nice looking cartridge you have there too

You're right about the expensive upgrade path, if I'd paid full price for each item that's on my 1210 you're talking roughly £2500 over and above the cost of the deck in the first place, which is ridiculous, does it sounds any better than a deck costing £3000- 4000, I have no idea because I've never heard one, I have seriously considered breaking it all down and selling it off bit by bit and buying a finished deck. Just so it looks like it cost £3000 lol

Luckily I bought most of the expensive upgrades second hand, jeez I don't even have a better platter that would add another £700-800 !

[Bigman80]

Hi Oliver,
I have the 750L which is much the same apart from the extra inches. Nicely made arm that works well with my MC cartridge. But then you have a Mission 774 which is also a very nice arm , one of those that I wish I still had.

The Mission is a very nice arm indeed, Thanks Ian. It's probably down to my amateur soldering in all fairness. Just feeling a bit of an itch at the minute.

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[Bigman80]

How does the Jelco compare to the Mission ianlenco

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[ianlenco]

Hi Oliver,
That's difficult to say but I think the Mission is a bit of a classic and always worked well for me. It was an itch to try a 12" arm that made me change it. Put it this way, although I never owned them at the same time my memory says the Mission does not suffer in comparison. One good thing - the Mission is an easy rewire

[Bigman80]

Lol, that's true. Would you rather have the Jelco or the Mission. Based solely on sound of course.

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[ianlenco]

I'd rather have both
A couple of years ago I bought a 12" arm tube for the Mission and it worked very nicely with a Zu Denon so if you really want my opinion, convert your 774 to a 12" 774.