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Tonearms: Ripoff?

If you search for tonearm recommendations you'll find an overwhelming amount of praise for $1k and less products. Audiomods and Jelco are the two most mentioned.

The Audiomods is just some guy making Rega-based tonearms in a workshop. Just some guy is putting out tonearms that compete with tonearms that cost many times the price -- from the likes of SME, Clearaudio, VPI, Graham, etc.

So the question is -- are tonearms just a scam? How is it that everyone loves Audiomods and Jelco to death and never talks about / dismisses high end tonearms? Is it because there's no real difference between one of these low-cost tonearms and the high end ones? Is an Audiomods Series V ** really ** the equivalent of a SME V? Some guy in a workshop equals the famed precision of SME? Is that once you have the math and materials worked out all tonearms are essentially the same? Or is it that most owners of record players online are dumpster-diving for vintage gear and simply can't afford to listen to better?

So, what's going on?
madavid0
elizabeth
6,726 posts
 
Take it off... Take it all off. Type naked. Listen naked. Eat naked. Sleep naked. Drive your car Nak... oops. "Sorry Officer,... I forgot something this Morning you say???"
I still remember the guy driving a Chrysler convertible with top down, cuts in front of where I am about to cross the street,(back when I was young, I was good looking, unlike the Medusa I am now) his pants down around his ankles, his flag perky.. I busted out laughing really loud.
Is this TOO MUCH INFORMATION??
br3098
660 posts
 
Where the hell you can find FR-66 for $3500 ? This tonearm price tag is over $6000 nowadays.
OK, but I was only thiiis much off.  I was trying to take an optimistic approach.

If you don't know, you can just say "I don't know".
Typically, you missed the entire point  of my reply.  Did you read anything after the sentence you quoted above?  As do many of us, I fins that a correctly matched tonearm to be invaluable to optimizing the analog experience.  Elizabeth, whom I admire greatly (now that I know she cruises for naked guys), apparently does not share this sentiment.  So YMMV.

madavid0 OP
127 posts
 
Typically, you missed the entire point of my reply. Did you read anything after the sentence you quoted above? As do many of us, I fins that a correctly matched tonearm to be invaluable to optimizing the analog experience.
So high end tonearms are a ripoff?
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rauliruegas
9,123 posts
 
Dear @madavid0: Obviously you don't want to understand what other gentlemans posts including my last one explain to you becvause you still are asking the same no-sense question.

For you Luxury is a ripoff? : to live in a 20 million dolar house, two own two Ferraris and one Lamborghini, to drink day by day with your family food: Chateu Latour or Chateu Margaux or Chateu Laffite, to own an original partiture of the Beethoven 9 or a Picasso master work.

What's all those for you, ripoff? why?

Whom determines what's high end? do you know it? if yes then do it a favor and please explain it and if not then why are you talking of high-end tonearms ripoff?

The " ball " is in your specific " field " and don't try to pass that " ball " to other " fierlds ". Please gave us your answers to those specific questions.

R.
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