RE: Food for thought

Posted by markinuk (A) on July 28, 2014 at 03:26:05

In Reply to: Food for thought posted by hesson11 on July 27, 2014 at 08:07:58:

It's true that there are many tonearm choices at various price levels and that available decks are few at lower prices. I think there are more higher-cost armless turntables available because:

1) at that market level, purchasers are more likely to want to specify a particular arm that suits their needs.

2) many purchasers of higher-priced decks start off with a low-cost arm for budgetary reasons, moving on to the higher-priced arm they really want when their finances have recovered. For example, when I bought my Ace Spacedeck 5 years ago (priced at 1200 UKP at the time), I had my dealer fit the arm from off my old turntable.

I did something similar back in the '80s, when I bought a Systemdek with the cheapest possible Linn Basik arm, which kept the package just within my budget. Many buyers of the Linn LP12 did the same.

Mark

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Topic - Armless tables for a Jelco tonearm? - hesson11 20:34:08 07/25/14 (20)

Food for thought - hesson11 08:07:58 07/27/14 (1)

RE: Food for thought - markinuk 03:26:05 07/28/14 (0)

RE: Armless tables for a Jelco tonearm? - uncle mag 17:28:11 07/26/14 (1)

RE: Armless tables for a Jelco tonearm? - markinuk 04:45:23 07/27/14 (0)

Alternative - BPoletti 10:07:43 07/26/14 (0)

If You're A Little Bit Handy - tubav 05:03:32 07/26/14 (0)

RE: Armless tables for a Jelco tonearm? - jimel84 04:45:40 07/26/14 (6)

RE: Armless tables for a Jelco tonearm? - AudioSoul 07:47:35 07/26/14 (5)

Here it is with the SA-750D for $1,605 ... - reelsmith. 07:52:08 07/26/14 (4)

Fine if you never want to play 45s. It's 33 1/3 rpm only. /nt\ - Opus 33 1/3 08:06:12 07/26/14 (3)

RE: Fine if you never want to play 45s. It's 33 1/3 rpm only. /nt\ - rshaugh1 19:44:54 07/28/14 (0)

Works for me .... - reelsmith. 08:10:26 07/26/14 (1)

Not me. I've a number of 12" 45 rpm LP pressings. Gotta have that speed. /nt\ - Opus 33 1/3 09:15:10 07/26/14 (0)

RE: Armless tables for a Jelco tonearm? - AudioSoul 21:41:54 07/25/14 (0)

RE: Armless tables for a Jelco tonearm? - John Elison 21:37:29 07/25/14 (0)

What happened ??? ... - reelsmith. 20:55:05 07/25/14 (4)

RE: What happened ??? ... - Brian Levy 10:19:10 07/27/14 (0)

Hasn't this been discussed before? - volunteer 07:47:40 07/26/14 (1)

I was out that day and ... - reelsmith. 15:32:54 07/26/14 (0)

RE: What happened ??? ... - ABliss 06:46:19 07/26/14 (0)

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