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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
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fleib
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Raul, you're quite long winded and you bring a novel aspect to technical matters.  Thought you might like to know, on another forum you're referred to as the 32 bit Bandito.  Due to the length and number of your posts, I think Kraken might be more appropriate.

To address your last post, did J. Carr say that all metal arms must be damped?  I doubt it, but it doesn't matter. You use that as justification for:

*IMHO no one can " to suck life out of the sound or smear it "" by damping a tonearm. You can't overdamp a tonearm.*

With all your ear training I'm surprised you can't hear the affect of over-damping a tonearm. One can MEASURE a negative affect on transient response by over-damping.  It also tends to kill the natural sustain of acoustic instruments.  I agree with Dover, arms are easily over-damped. If it was Dgarretson who said that about vacuum hold down, I tend to agree with him. It's easy to suck the life out of the music by over-damping.  

I think you might be surprised by the number of people who add fluid damping to their arms. KAB sells a trough and paddle device that is popular, and it's very easy to DIY.

Too many words Mr. Kraken, too many words.

Sincerely,

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nandric
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American logician& mathematician Quine wrote a book called

 ''From a logical point of view''. Talking about ''distortions'' without any

specific description about any of them looks like those ''sets of

all sets'' im mathematics. Those produced the so called ''set

theoretic paradoxes'' of which not only Frege was a victim.

I think that our Raul is also a victim of his ''distortions'' for the

same reason.

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rauliruegas
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Dear dover: I must add that that PURE MUSIC SIGNAL that pass through the internal tonearm wires when " touch " the IC cables that send it to the phonopreamp starts the continuos degradation of that true grooves modulations information all over each single link in the system audio chain.

Now, when any kind of distortions " disappear " in that first link ( cartridge/tonearm/TT ) then all the additional single system links distortions are more evident and we have to fine tune each of those system links and sometimes even change some of those links as cables or electronics even we have to adjust our seat position and the speakers position and a check up that the room treatment is not overdamped even to check the SPL we are listening in this totally new experience.
This check up of the SPL we are listening is important because when the distortions goes lower and lower we think that the volume/SPL of what we are hearing goes lower too but it's not really in that way. What's happening is that you are not hearing to the high distortions you were accustom to.

So, it's not to damp ( in any way ) the tonearm but we have to make and overall adjustment to all the audio system. Not an easy task and very time consuming but the rewards each one of us received are second to none.


Regards and enjoy the music,
R.
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rauliruegas
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fleib: Stop to insult me. The first time I took it as joke of me and even I laughed but additional 3 other times is not a joke any more.

So stay calm about or I must to report you to Agon.

You can be against my opinions and even against my person but here in this forum I never insult directly to any one.

I never said to you or any one that are " stupid " or something like that. I always respect any single human been every where.

Enough,
R.
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cleeds
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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.
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