Have some people lost all reason - OR WHAT! Don't you just wish you could travel back in time.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Grand Wazoo
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Have some people lost all reason - OR WHAT! Don't you just wish you could travel back in time.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Grand Wazoo
Yes, you would need a new armboard to use a Rega - I believe Heybrook made them from MDF, so not difficult to do.
Two layers of 9mm birch ply glued together.Quote:
Originally Posted by YNWaN
Ah, I stand corrected :) - still, not difficult to make either.
Thanks again guys, some really helpful information here.
What seems to be the wisdom floating about is that MC carts can cause "bearing chatter" on some arms, in particular the LVX and Basik+, causing the bearings to deteriorate over time. How far this is true is anyone's guess, but I'd rather not chance it and the consensus is that a modified Rega or one of the newer arms will be a step up from the Basik+ in any case.
I actually have an RB301, it's fitted to my P3-24 at the moment. The problem is that I'm probably going to want to move the P3-24 on in the near future, once the TT2 is sorted out. Not sure if it makes sense to separate the deck and arm, and I am curious about the modified Rega arms like the Technoarm.
So the question now is, would you opt for a standard RB301, a modified arm like the Technoarm, or something else altogether (perhaps a second-hand Jelco or SME) in the £250 price range?
The bearing myth is just marketing fluff, no cartridge produces anything like enough mechanical energy to do any damage to even the poorest quality bearing.
I wouldn't take the 301 off your Rega, as it will be difficult to sell without it.
If I was going to buy a modified Rega arm it would probably be the Techno arm. However, I would probably go for an un modified older RB300 with the tungsten counterweight.
Just by way of an off-the-wall suggestion:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GRACE-G-70...#ht_1654wt_932
There's no inherent difference in the compliance of MC and MM cartridges, so MC carts should be no more likely to cause chatter than a MM.
Doubly so given that a cantilever would be sheared in half several hundred grams of load before you are likely to do anything to the bearings in a tonearm. A cart causing bearing chatter is one of the stupidest ideas I have ever heard, much like claiming adding an England flag to your cars aerial will damage your wheel bearings.
The Grace 707 bearings were the things that started the myth about cartridges upsetting the bearings I remember. This arm linked to by Shane above, was designed for low mass/high compliance cartridges and came supplied with a very low capacitance and extremely delicate exit cable specifically for the CD-4 quadrophonic pickups coming along at this time, needing a readable response to 40kHz or so. The fact that Linn apparently bought a job lot cheap (apparently they were at the time ;)), mated it with the ill-matched Supex SD900E and basically stuck two fingers up at the establishment who "knew" these things weren't right, didn't really help in the long term, since the fair tracking ability the average Supex was capable of wasn't fully exploited in this arm and any rough handling of the arm itself caused flats to form in the very fine needle-roller bearings. The 707 I have sounds quite nice with an ADC ZLM though, but the better of my Supexes doesn't, the Techie SL1500 arm sounding far better and tracking very much improved! This 707 has the decoupling mod to the counterweight stub assembly and the bearings aren't bad at all.
Guy would advise, but if the TT2 suspension will cope with a Jelco 750 (it certainly should the straight model with fixed shell, but we're back to Basik Plus-but-better-'cos-it's-new here again), then one of these should fit the Linn arm-hole? and you can mess around with shells and cartridges to your heart's content :lol:
Hi Dave
I know you like the 'G707' i do, but much prefer the 'G727'...