Another esoteric inquiry - Hadcock tonearm


In my quest for the dubious honor of the least responses to a given thread, here I go again.....anyone with experience with the Hadcock arms? They're apparently back in production in several incarnations, all the way up to a "SE" version with VdH silver internal wiring, etc etc. There is very little info on Hadcock arms on the net, and courtesy of another A-gon member information on the current line is forthcoming. The previous Hadcocks were apparently fairly highly regarded in their day. Any, ANY info would be apprecitated!
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Showing 1 response by grandpad

I owned a Hadcock GH228 Superarm, purchased while living in London in the mid-70s. Recently swapped it to a gentleman who wanted it for his vintage London Decca cartridges.

It was a low mass, uni-pivot arm, best suited to mm cartridges. The Shure V15 was a favorite back then as I recall. It was a pretty solid arm at the time, better than the Mayware Formula 4, also a British uni-pivot design which I still own.

HiFi+ magazine did a review of a GH242 SE in their issue 13, which unfortunately can't be read on their on-line site:

http://www.hifiplus.com/issue13-tab.html

Perhaps you can contact them for a copy.