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In Reply to: RE: PD444 spinning posted by Dave Garretson on September 27, 2015 at 11:32:05
Dave, you do good work. ;^)
I have not seen a PD444 for many years so I suspect not enough exist that you could make a nice living selling armboards. But no doubt there could be some interest,
Since I wanted two arms the 444 was on my list before finding my SP-10 Mk2A. But that was much easier since so many of those seem to have survived.
How do you plan to utilize the two arms? Stereo/mono? MC/MM?
Whatever, I'm sure you'll enjoy it/them.
"You can't know what the "best" is unless you have heard everything, and keep in mind that given individual tastes, there really isn't any such thing." HP
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I grabbed up the SME 3012R because a knowledgeable 'phile suggested that this arm is unequaled in all of analogdom, and among heavy long arms is noteably versatile with cartridges of widely varying compliance. The 13cu Grace F10P is just a point of departure, but after further noodling with VTA and VTF I'm increasingly impressed with it, particularly the high quality of its LF performance in combination with the 3012R. The generally unknown 808X produced toward the end of the golden age is a cipher, a wild card. I have a 505 S1 for comparison, but have not yet tried it. Vintage is cool and possibly close to as good as it gets.
Dave, I was not asking so much about the arms themselves but how you intend to utilize them.
Do you have interest in setting up one for mono playback?
Experiment with different types of cartridge such as hi VS low output, MC and MM, or whatever?
"You can't know what the "best" is unless you have heard everything, and keep in mind that given individual tastes, there really isn't any such thing." HP
I have lots of vintage MM/MIs to cycle through on these arms and compare to several low to medium output MCs. I don't have a mono cartridge, but would appreciate recommendations. I also want to see how these two arms handle MM/MIs relative to a few arms in house that were marketed more explicitly for MM/MI: Signet XK-50 and Technics EPA-100.
Ortofon MC2000
AT ART7
Lyra Helikon w/ Soundsmith OCL
Audioquest AQ7000 Fe5
Denon DL-S1
& maybe one current production LOMC TBD
Signet TK10ML
Signet TK100ML
Acutex 320STR
Acutex 412
AT 20SS
Precept PC550ML
Empire 2000Z
Azden YMP50-VL
Stanton 981LZS
Andante P76
This could take time...
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