Tonearm suggestions for my Nottingham Analogue Spacedeck

Pm sent.

Like the fact we have real world opinions and reviews on actual tonearms here of late, just the sort of thing I was hoping for and many thanks indeed.

Might be just me but I did not read that Solypsa was offering a free loaner of the tonearm, just that he had one to try ?

I had looked at or considered the Schick.
Interesting that both the 9 and the 12 inch are both the same price in euros?
Thank you for the link, will research them

Still got the Spacedeck and 9 inch Spacearm.
Although after giving it a full service with fresh bearing oil and SmartTractor alignment we find the joys of hand made arms.
It is not quite 9 inch.... Lol
Specs say set pivot to spindle at 210 but impossible to align to any alignment with that.
Had to set to 208mm to get it to align correctly.
But now it really does sound better all the way through an album. I had been noticing very slight inner run distortion occasionally.

All I may do at this stage is look for a 12" Anna Spacearm.

Running Nagaoka MP 150 right now and very happy .

I thought you was but sometimes hard to tell in the typed form!

True enough and I sure as sugar cannot take my money with me to the grave!

Although I am sure my daughter would not object to looking after my money for me.......

It truly was not, I had to mention the 294 space, Larry never brought it up.
And let's remember I asked him if he could spare a few minutes to talk to me which he did by CALLING ME.

Anyways as far as budget, well not really outside because I would obviously sell the Spacedeck to offset purchase of the 294 Space so not a huge difference from my budget for a tone arm.

Had a long conversation today with Larry at Hollywood Sound, pretty much the goto guy for Nottingham tables in the USA.

His suggestion and thoughts were NOT to change out the arm at all as it can handle vastly better carts still. He has been down the arm swapping road and gone backwards every time.

Recommended cart would be Kiseki Purpleheart.

OR step up to something like the Nottingham 294 Space with 12" Anna Spacearm.

Likely last table I would ever need.

All his opinions of course but he has worked with Notts tables for eons and Tom Fletcher himself so I respect his opinions.

And at no time was there any attemp to upsell me anything at all, that right there tells me a lot!

Interesting post Nkonor.

Mixture of condescension ,mild insults and half decent suggestions, sweet.

Your suggestion that I bought into The Gate just because I could and in your opinion will, return is particularly silly.

You may label it as a "tweak"but anybody who has tried one knows it is so much more than that.

Now let’s get sensible.

Why on earth would I contemplate spending 5k on a tonearm for a $1200 table? The Nottingham is good but not THAT good!

Considering the table,value and potential I honestly do not believe there is any need or reason to spend more than about $1500 tops on an arm for this table.

Above that and say 5k, I would likely look at a completely new and different table.

Vinyl is NOT my only media or even my number 1 media so spending will be less.

The Gate effects EVERYTHING in my system and imho well worth its price.

Obviously YMMV.

I guess I should be flattered you have followed my posts but a little saddened by your conclusions if truth be told.

Good ideas here.
The Pear Audio Cornet arms look interesting for sure.

I did look at the Jelco as well.

I am tending to lean in the direction of the Audiomods arm, at least on paper.
Be nice if anybody here has actually got one and could chime in.

Jeff at Audiomods seems pretty decent from my email correspondence with him so far.

And yes price for a VTA on the fly adjustment arm is very good.

Ouch....$4500?
Not the price I had in mind I am afraid,not going to spend twice the cost of the table on an arm.

Nice it may be......

Not even looked at Kuzma!
Thank you, research now!