Tonearm for Technics SP-15

"Everything. You need to buy the MK2 or the 500."

Raul, I know they are different arms but please explain what is different in the VTA adjustment mechanism. Looks like they both use a helical thread.

Telling me this is better or that is better without a detailed explanation of why it's better makes me believe that you don't know, that it's just an opinion of yours.

Either enlighten me with facts or keep your opinions to yourself.

BillWojo

Elliott, the Technics EPA tonearm guru is a fellow that goes by JP and can be found at the HiFi Haven forum as well as other places. Do a search on that arm there, he does a repair to the fragile ruby bearings as used on them.

Interesting to read the ad copy on this arm in the Ebay add you linked. It makes it seem that the armtube is made of Titanium Nitride. Had to look into that as that stuff has always been vapor deposited as a very hard wear surface used on cutting tools. I never heard it used as a material and looking into it all I see is surface treatments. So the arm tube is aluminum with a surface treatment, very dubious as to it’s benefit. I have the same type of arm tume on my Technics SL-M3 LT stashed away.

BillWojo

Everyone keeps talking about the unique VTA on the fly adjustment of the Technics arm so I had to look that up. Aside from 20MM of travel (Technics) opposed to 6MM of travel (that can be reset by simply loosening the collet lock on the pillar and sliding the tonearm up or down) of the Victor UA-7045 and UA-7082 is there really any difference? Looks like they both use a calibrated concentric knurled ring that is simply rotated to raise or lower the tonearm. Yes, I understand the other aspects of the arms are different.

So what makes the Technics unique?

BillWojo