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In Reply to: RE: Old Guy - Turntable Experience posted by creativepart on August 11, 2020 at 12:13:16:
Very similar. Thanks for sharing. When I got married I traded the Weathers in for an AR turntable that I thought was an up-grade. That was a mistake. I liked the AR suspension, platter and plinth, but found the arm hopeless. Kept it less than a year before moving on first to a Dual 2019 and then to a Thorens TD-125 with a Rabco SL8E, then after a few years later changed the Rabco to an SME 309.
Back to the Weathers, the arm on it was really quite good and it taught me the significance of having a good arm. This fact was recently brought back to me when I traded my VPI Prime for a VPI HW-40. I had two arms on the Prime, a 3D and a Metal one, both Unipivots, both fitted with VPI's Dual Pivot mod. This setup worked OK. The HW-40 has the new Gimbal arm. Big improvement. BIG. On one of my other turntables I have an SME arm, and I still kind of view SME arms as the gold standard. This Gimbal arm is in the the SME league. The proof of the pudding is how easily it sets up. How it sounds. But again back to that old Weathers, I listened to a Jimmy Smith record I bought in 1963 last night and it still sounds pristine. That record was played many times on that Weathers. What can anyone say about any arm that performed that well?
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