What are you jonesing for?

I'll just add that the Holbo makes it very easy to bolt a cartridge in, even if it needs separate nuts.  The tone arm is a parallel tube, and it can be rotated about its long axis so it faces sideways or even upside down.  I set it sideways, and could position the bolts, washers and cartridge without having to physically hold anything in place.  From there getting the nuts on was easy.

The SME 3009 fixed head-shell tonearm, on the other hand, has to be completely removed before a cartridge can be safely installed.  Because mine is so old, the connectors are fragile.  I do have a custom-made wiring loom for it but that requires gymnastics to get the wires through the tonearm.  Something for another day!

@richardbrand : I have two Grace 707 arms with fixed head shells. They have to be removed to change cartridges. Pain in the you-know-what! I prefer removable head shells though the obsessives claim that hurts the cartridge's resolution.

What would I like? How about a set of 12 NOS GE 6LF6's so I can re-tube my pair of Futterman H3aa's. Alas, those tubes are long out of production.

I have always wanted a McIntosh amp with the blue meters and now the ones with the Mc built into the side fins.  I fed my other jones by just getting a Marantz Cinema 30 AVR.  Always wanted a Marantz receiver.  Back to the Mc.  I don’t need another amp but a jones has nothing to do with need it’s all about want.  

Great lp pressings of interest