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RE: Technics 1200 tonearm

Posted by John Elison (A) on June 22, 2017 at 18:36:12

In Reply to: Technics 1200 tonearm posted by Gera on June 22, 2017 at 13:13:36:

Hi Herman,

I own a Technics SL-1200 and I agree with AudioSoul about the Technics tonearm. It's a very good tonearm as far as I can tell. I'm happy with mine.

Your cartridge is more of a high-compliance cartridge with compliance of 25-um/mN. That's the same as 25 x 10^-6 cm/dyne.

Do you have the KAB silicone fluid tonearm damping trough. If not, I would highly recommend that option. It will improve tonearm performance with high-compliance cartridges like yours. Without the fluid damper, the Technics tonearm performs best with medium compliance cartridges in-between 10-um/mN and 20-um/mN. I'm using a Denon DL-S1 on my Technics SL-1200 and it's compliance is about 17-um/mN. However, I have used an Audio Technica ART7 with compliance of 28-um/mN and it sounded just fine. Of course, I have the KAB fluid damper, which you can order and install yourself.

Good luck,
John Elison

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Edits: 06/26/17

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