WTD: Hadcock tonearm

[tapid]

The best sounding tonearm with a decca cart in 35 years of listening according to someone on this forum was with a mayware unipivital.
I never forgot reading that and recently bought one of Paul (Monty) to go with my decca s.gold and the results have been stunning, the old adage
of a veil being lifted from the music certainly applies here. Best £170 spent on hifi me thinks, and thy do come up on ebay for around 200 from time to
as well. Would recommend a think on that Andy. best wishes

[topoxforddoc]

Brian,

That's an interesting observation about the Mayware Formula IV. I remember these back in the late 70s/80s, as they were an exact contemporary of the Hadcock - better built, but perhaps a little less rigid, if my memory serves me correctly. Looked nicer too - very much like a modern Nima. The Hi Fi press at that time preferred the Hadcock to the Mayware for Deccas, but I'm sure that it would be an excellent match. Hard to find nowadays though.

Charlie

[Marco]

The Hadcock isn't that difficult to sort out to be honest.

No, but it is rather fiddly...

When I had a (cryo'd) G242 Integra, it sounded great when it was (painstakingly) properly set up, but I couldn't get on with how when adjusting VTF, using the rear counterweights, it would inevitably knock out headshell azimuth, then when you got that right, VTF would be a little out again, and so forth...

It's a recipe for neurosis, especially for an anal tweaker/set up perfectionist like me, and so one can spend more time fiddling than listening to music!

Good shout on the Mayware, Brian.

Marco.