Tonearm recommendation


Hello all,
Recently procured a Feickert Blackbird w/ the Jelco 12 inch tonearm.
The table is really good, and its a keeper. The Jelco is also very good, but not as good as my Fidelity Research FR66s. So the Jelco will eventually hit Ebay, and the question remains do I keep the FR66s or sell that and buy something modern in the 5-6 K range. My only point of reference is my old JMW-10 on my Aries MK1, so I don't know how the FR66s would compare to a modern arm. So I'd like to rely on the collective knowledge and experience of this group for a recommendation.

Keep the FR66s, or go modern in the 5-6K range, say a Moerch DP8 or maybe an SME.

Any and all thoughts and opinions are of course much appreciated.

Cheers,      Crazy Bill
wrm0325

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rauliruegas7,360 posts
" I know exactly what I'm talking about. Is very dificult for any one of us to have a dialogue when exist diferent levels of ignorance in between persons. My level is high and I know it."

If your knowledge is so superior and your "facts" so certain, what's the point of you contributing here? Evidently, you believe the existing "levels of ignorance" frustrate your abilty to prove your points, such as that we should " Forgeret about that resonance frequency theory."

Personally, I've not been waiting for your arrival here so that you can instruct us on how you've reinvented the wheel.
rauliruegas7,387 posts"So stay calm about or I must to report you to Agon"

Do what you like, Raul, because you're going to do it anyway. But don't threaten the contributors here. You needn't like every post any more than everyone likes yours.
fleib

 " ... Raul, Nice story, but it's a little hard to believe. You and your scientist friend are in a lab playing records and watching the stylus with an electron microscope? This was at normal speed and slow motion..."


It's obviously a fabricated story, fleib. Raul is really confused.


rauliruegas  " ...cleeds: fabricated?. That's why some of you can understand or just are against my opinions: because I had and have experiences you don't live yet."

Sorry, Raul. You don't know what you're talking about. First, I'm not against your opinions. You're free to believe anything you like! Frankly, your opinions are so confused that they are of little value. But when you make wild claims about watching records play using an electron microscope, you can expect readers like fleib and me to challenge you because, again, you don't seem to know what you're talking about.

And Raul, you definitely don't know what you're talking about when you claim "I had and have experiences you don't," because you don't know anything about me, Raul.
analogluvr

" ... And with regards to rauls comments about the ET's bass, if it is set up properly there is no lack of low frequency information. In fact there is hardly any added extra resonances which I know raul is a huge fan of. Sometimes that may sound like less bass."

Agreed, absolutely! It's not uncommon to confuse excessive arm resonance with extra bass response.