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In Reply to: RE: Yes, that's the one... posted by Lew on May 02, 2012 at 11:51:38
I have it and like it, switching off from my JMW 10.5i to it every once in a while. "Friction free" it's not, but it does exhibit amazingly low friction for the price.
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you are the un-named "friend" whom I knew owned one of those tonearms and liked it. I did not want to put you on the spot by mentioning your name. Thanks for chiming in.
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I have a Luxman PD444 and th Cherry arm has been recommended to me.
"Hope is a good thing. Maybe, the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
I've never been able to bring myself to put it to the ultimate test -- i.e., same cart on both arms. I have the arms on separate armboards, so it really wouldn't be all that difficult.
Maybe I don't really want to know. I mean, I have three armtubes for the JMW and to have all that beaten by a $200 arm (that's what mine cost before he boosted the price a couple times), well, I'm in no hurry to find out.
Thanks for your candor. Seems like the Cherry arm is performing pretty well.
"Hope is a good thing. Maybe, the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
I should probably add that I haven't heard the current version which employs a separate cartridge holder (rather than having the cartridge mounted directly on the wood itself). Mine is the 12" version BTW.The arm has its shortcomings if you count them as such. No anti-skating provisions. No easy way to ground the arm. No arm lift, although the builder has ingeniously installed TWO finger lifts on the arm itself, one of which is mounted halfway back so it's easy to lift the arm at the end of a record. And you have to position the arm wires at the back end of the arm so they don't impede its operation, but this just involves common sense. All in all, I think it's an amazing bargain and I've never had any skipping/repeating issues with it. It currently has a Soundsmith-retipped (ruby cantilever) Denon DL103 on it.
Edits: 05/03/12
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