12-1/2" arm. NewArtVinyl Black Bird. Yea or Nay?
Jelco's may be highly respected, but simply don't appeal to me. look at this, how could that price be true??? https://www.ebay.com/itm/114059182299?ul_noapp=true |
If you like that Russian arm then you can look for Infinity Black Widow or much better Luxman TA-1 tonearm (made by Micro) with removable armtube, both under $700 max. Living in Russia i have never heard about this tonearm, but i know for sure that nothing is made here nowadays except for weapons, you'd better look for vintage made in Japan tonearms or something new made in Europe, especially in Germany (like Thomas Schick is $1.2k is not too expensive for you). Lithuanian made Reed are terrific tonearms! |
Hard to find a good Black Widow nowadays but here you go. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.at%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F223832906126 |
Here is Luxman TA-1 as an alternative to Black Widow (designed for super high compliance cartridges), as far as i know the problem with BW is fragile thin armtube. The Luxman is made of metal, comes with superheavy stabilizer, you can compare it on this image to UA-7082 on my TT. Luxman tonearm was made by Micro Seiki I also remember inexpensive Micro Seiki MA-707 |
