Hi guys,
what are the best options to replace the technics tonearm. Easy to mod, and not cost too much.
Thanks.
Location: Bulgaria
Posts: 48
I'm Dimitar.
Hi guys,
what are the best options to replace the technics tonearm. Easy to mod, and not cost too much.
Thanks.
The answer most on here will give you is the Jelco 750D. Bloody good arm that invites fettling with different headshells and tonearm interconnects.
Personally I prefer the better arms from Origin Live but these are significantly more expensive.
SOURCE:OPPO UDP-205 BluRay, SkyQ, Technics SL1210M5G/HexMat Eclipse/MN Bearing/Origin Live Gravity One puck/Isonoes with Boots/Jelco TK-850S Tonearm/Hana Umami Blue, PS Audio Stellar Phonostage. I also have an AT-OC9XSH as a spare cartridge.
AMPLIFIER: Bryston BR-20 Pre/DAC/Streamer & Bryston 4B3 Power Amplifier
SPEAKERS: Spendor D7 on Iso-Acoustics Gaia III’s
HEADPHONES: OPPO PM-1 with Atlas Zeno cable, B&W Pi7 S2 and B&W C5 v2.
CABLES: Analogue: Speaker Atlas Mavros Grun. Interconnect - Atlas Mavros XLR x3, MCRU Silver Tonearm cable
Digital:Audioquest Carbon Ethernet x 4, Audioquest Carbon digital, English Electric 8Switch, Chord Optichord, Atlas Optical.
Mains: PS Audio Perfectwave AC-05 x 5, Isol-8 Powerline Extreme with Quantum Science yellow fuse on input cable, Sounds Fantastic 6way Mains Blocks.
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Location: Bulgaria
Posts: 48
I'm Dimitar.
I guess Jelco 750D is fine as my budget will allow it, but what I'm concerned is that the effective tonearm mass is 20g, which is far too much than the stock arm.. and my high compliance cartridges won't work properly.
Also, this means to forget about Ortofon 2m Black right, since it is high compliance cartridge.
Location: Bulgaria
Posts: 48
I'm Dimitar.
I wouldn't change the stock tonearm, but I made a mistake, to loosen the top pillar of the tonearm bearings, and there is no way to bring it back to the factory settings - it's too sensitive, 0.5 microns as I know, so it's impossible to recalibrate.
Pity, because I did rewired the tonearm..
Location: East Coast USA
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I'm Nathan.
We the willing, working for the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much for so long with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Location: Bulgaria
Posts: 48
I'm Dimitar.
The bearings screws are factory calibrated. After this they are not supposed to be touched. I didn't know that. Now suspension of the arm feels different, it's like something is applying pressure, and something is not normal. I can feel it and hear it.
So the solution to me is change the tonearm, and I wonder between two options, since Jelco is too expensive for me at the moment.
Location: Bulgaria
Posts: 48
I'm Dimitar.
Do I need to buy cables for the Jelco? because I found one that looks like without tonearm cables