petrat
09-05-2017, 15:46
Nice 10.5 inch tonearm, a Jelco SA-250BV, this one with an oil damper fitted inside.
In Polish, it's one of these ... http://www.highfidelity.pl/artykuly/0609/jelco.html
https://www.vinylengine.com/library/jelco/sa-250bv.shtml
Beautifully built, this comes with both light and heavy counterweights, standard Jelco headshell and packaging. I am a big fan of 'mid-sized' tonearms, giving most of the subjective benefits of a 12-incher, but still keeping the dynamics of the 9-inch ones, ime. I've really enjoyed this arm for the last year or so, using everything from high compliance mm carts through to heavyweight SPUs. I estimate that its effective mass is in the medium range, certainly not excessively light or too heavy, anyway.
PLEASE READ. Due to its extra length (over the standard 9 inch arms), please check that your turntable can accomodate this before buying. Most will need a non-standard arm-board. It's a normal Jelco/Linn mounting hole, but spindle to pivot distance is mentioned on the web as being 251 mm. However, I think that may be for Stevenson alignment ... I have it at 255.5, which gives perfect Baerwald with a SPU.
Price is £165, plus shipping at cost.
(Tonearm cable not included)
http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff384/petrat56/20170326_095227_zpsycvcj6wg.jpg (http://s1233.photobucket.com/user/petrat56/media/20170326_095227_zpsycvcj6wg.jpg.html)
http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff384/petrat56/20170326_095245_zpspkkfrpcz.jpg (http://s1233.photobucket.com/user/petrat56/media/20170326_095245_zpspkkfrpcz.jpg.html)
http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff384/petrat56/20170326_095322_zps1udacimt.jpg (http://s1233.photobucket.com/user/petrat56/media/20170326_095322_zps1udacimt.jpg.html)
http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff384/petrat56/20170326_095334_zps8m7lcsym.jpg (http://s1233.photobucket.com/user/petrat56/media/20170326_095334_zps8m7lcsym.jpg.html)
In Polish, it's one of these ... http://www.highfidelity.pl/artykuly/0609/jelco.html
https://www.vinylengine.com/library/jelco/sa-250bv.shtml
Beautifully built, this comes with both light and heavy counterweights, standard Jelco headshell and packaging. I am a big fan of 'mid-sized' tonearms, giving most of the subjective benefits of a 12-incher, but still keeping the dynamics of the 9-inch ones, ime. I've really enjoyed this arm for the last year or so, using everything from high compliance mm carts through to heavyweight SPUs. I estimate that its effective mass is in the medium range, certainly not excessively light or too heavy, anyway.
PLEASE READ. Due to its extra length (over the standard 9 inch arms), please check that your turntable can accomodate this before buying. Most will need a non-standard arm-board. It's a normal Jelco/Linn mounting hole, but spindle to pivot distance is mentioned on the web as being 251 mm. However, I think that may be for Stevenson alignment ... I have it at 255.5, which gives perfect Baerwald with a SPU.
Price is £165, plus shipping at cost.
(Tonearm cable not included)
http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff384/petrat56/20170326_095227_zpsycvcj6wg.jpg (http://s1233.photobucket.com/user/petrat56/media/20170326_095227_zpsycvcj6wg.jpg.html)
http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff384/petrat56/20170326_095245_zpspkkfrpcz.jpg (http://s1233.photobucket.com/user/petrat56/media/20170326_095245_zpspkkfrpcz.jpg.html)
http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff384/petrat56/20170326_095322_zps1udacimt.jpg (http://s1233.photobucket.com/user/petrat56/media/20170326_095322_zps1udacimt.jpg.html)
http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff384/petrat56/20170326_095334_zps8m7lcsym.jpg (http://s1233.photobucket.com/user/petrat56/media/20170326_095334_zps8m7lcsym.jpg.html)