I decided for the Reed tonearms, after trying a few other arms. I was interested in The Ikeda it 407 tonearm, to be honest partially because I really like the look of the arm. I was also interested in the Thales Simple because of the smart headshell design. And I was interested in the Kuzma 4 point.
I also like the look of a turntable, and I am not very impressed by the looks of the Kuzma, although it is an excellent and very stable arm. To me the arm looks like I would go fishing with it. But A lot of people really like the black no nonsense look of the Kuzma. The Ikeda did not get the max out of the cartridges I was aiming for. And the cartridge I like with the Ikeda, sounded a little close to the cartridge and arm on my Thorens. The Thales played wonderful and I could be very happy with it. It was very comparable with the 9 inch arm of Reed. But the 12 inch 3p of Reed did the best job with the mysoniclab Cartridge, and gave the sound I like with good Jazz. So I decided for the Thales with the zyxx and the Reed with Mysoniclab. But when the 9 inch Reed was still on, and the 3p Reed was mounted on, the two Reed arms just seemed to be ment on together.
So my choice for the Zyxx cartidge would have been THE choice. But I am very happy with my decicion
Well, that is difficult to say, because
I am a lifelong loyal Naim user. And because I do not like to mix brands, I have had the Naim phono pre amp for a long demo, before I choose a different brand. But the demo eventually was not so long. The AVID sounded much more natural, and I do not know how to describe an emotional evolvement. But it is so much subjective. The Avid sounded more towards the sound of the more expensive RCA Theriaa, very clear and natural.
So my opinion, is the Naim is not better of worse, but it is just what takes the emotional feeling of an individual and therefore subjective.
No exactly obvious, but this Gyro SE has the four " mods" from Solidair.
The pylons were first, then magnetic feet things, trinity under arm plate and finally the weight thing.
Least change were the magnetic feet.
Best upgrades were pylons and trinity. Clamp was off ebay at half normal price.
Iâd definitely recommend the pylons first. Then trinity.
Pylons and trinity gave more detail, and surface noise. But a good scrub of the vinyl sorted the surface noise, just leaving me more detail. Which did surprise me.
The magnetic feet design is flawed IMO. There is a small amount of stiction with them due to side load on the pins that hold them together.
Yes. The ndx2/xpsdr not been used much in the past 3 months now.
The RB3000 feels great, looks great and best of all sounds great. Iâd never have thought it would make that much difference, but it does. I was wrong.
Ive managed to go all our of the Solidair bits on the gyro se. Not convinced the magnetic feet did much, but the deck is already well isolated. The weight thing that hilds the vinyl down is good too. Bought 2nd hand, so better vfm. And less of a faff that using the orbe clamp.
We bought our LP12s around the same time. I remember the UKP 340 but I donât remember the exact date - it was definitely Autumn 1981. I bought the newly released Basik arm and cartridge with it - I probably still have that arm in some drawer around the house.
I could have bought the new Linn LVV Basik arm, but chose to go with a used Rega R200 - which was less money⊠My DV10X was fitted to it, straight off my Rega Planar 2.
The Rega Planar 2 was sold on, to the brother of a work colleague.
In Aprilâ82, the Rega R200 arm on my LP12 was replaced by a new Linn Ittok LVII - cost ÂŁ253âŠ!! I was told last week that my Ittok is now worth around ÂŁ700âŠ!!!
My DV10X was fitted to it, straight off my Rega Planar 2.
