Anyone here knows the Reed 3Q tonearm?

Hi Curio, The Reed has a new site with the data about all
their tonearm versions: www.tonearms.lt

Regards,

Geoch, I am familiar with the Reed 2A in the actual sence
and with the Pluto in the virtual kind of sence. The Pluto is produced in the Netherlands by Edy Drissen our second 'grand master' next to Van den Hul. I think that the
complexity of Pluto is a small problem in comparition with
the price. Ie you will need much luck to sell the Pluto for
a 'reasonable' price.

Regards,

George, I agree with Curio and add my copmliments to his.
The strange thing however is that I started a similar thread some time ago about Pluto tonearms (see my threads).
Alas not a single reaction from the forum and only one from
Dertonarm in a privite e-mail.He mentioned the synergism with Van den Hul carts but also that this tonearm is not generaly known in particular in the USA. I am glad that
you proved Dertonarm to be wrong. Not a easy thing to achive versus this German. The TT's and tonearms hand made by Driessen have already a mythical status in the Netherlands but the Dutch have also some remarcable status in astronomy. There maybe some connections between the two
because the prices of Mr. Driessen are 'astronomical'.
One can put this the other way round: if you need to ask
for the price you are probable not suitable client for Mr.Driessen. You avoided this part of the story in your story like some kind of a English gentleman but the most of us are, I assume,not British and would love to hear
also about those 'earthly' subject without any harm done to astronomy.

Regards,

Hi Curio, The longer the tonearm the smaller the tracking error. But the longer the arm the higher the eff. mass.
If your wood choice for the Reed Q is Cedar then the compliance of your Benz LP should make a good combo with
your Reed Q. BTW it is not clear if you already own the
Reed. It looks as if you have one to experiment with and decide to buy or not later?

Regards,

Hi Curio, I provided the new web site for the Reed so you
should first look for the data regarding the eff. mass of
the different wood kinds. I ordered the Reed 2A, 12" with Pernambucco wood tube (27 gr.) a year of so ago. But I intended to use this 'heavy mass' with a cart with very
low compliance (Phase Tech P-3G). So I am very happy with
this combo. I am not sure what Raul thinks about this co-
relation between eff.mass and cart compliance but I do check the 'abvious' whenever I consider a new tonearm.
That is why I thought that the Red Cedar would make a good
combo with your Benz LP. BTW I use Benz Ruby 3S with my Triplanar VII and this cart is identical with the LP except
for the wood corpus.
Regards,