Personal turntable/cartridge evolution

Chadnliz

Yes, I think so -- it was a bronzey colored, supposedly rare tonearm by Grado, manufactured in the early 80's?

It was very nicely constructed, had an S shaped wand and was relatively high mass as I recall.

It was hyped and sold to me by my audio mentor and I took his possibly biased advice primarily based on my respect and enthusiasm for the Grado signature cartridges.

Perhaps I would have liked the tonearm more on a different turntable, but I always worried that it was too heavy for the floating suspension of the LP12 and in summary, that Linn set up was the most tedious, least sexy, least enjoyable turntable I ever had.

Dual
Technics
Systemdek Transciption/Mission 774/Empire Mc1000 (vdh)*
(Various come and go)
Scheu Premier II*/Morch UP4/Allaerts MC1B
3 Old Thorens*
Shroeder 2 then DPS*
SME 20A/SME 5
Garrard 301/Hadcock 242 SE/Music Maker 2 &3*
Various brief appearences, not least arms and carts (ET2, Audiomeca, Clearaudio Accurate, Koetsu Urushi)
Allaerts MC1B Mk2 and finally the incredible MC2 Finish*
Cartridge Man Conductor Airbearing*
Garrard 401 (still setting up)

Ammendment to my post of 8/14/04:
From the Scoutmaster/JMW 9/Dyna 17D MKII to:
Scoutmaster/JMW 9 Signature/Shelter 501 MKII to:
Walker Audio Proscenium Gold Signature/Micromagic Magic Diamond.... End of the turntable line for me :)

Walker Audio Proscenium Gold Signature turntable is the end of my turntable journey, too. And the Magic Diamond cartridge is superb. Congratulations, Slipknot1!

Prior to the Walker here:
VPI 19 MkIII with ET2 tonearm, Grado Reference
B&0 4002 linear tracking turntable
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Yes CW that was the same arm I have. I am having a bit of trouble getting the arm to lower enough so that it is level at the headshell.
Rushton and slip, my friend has the Walker....very nice! I was lucky enough to be able to help him get Loyds new phono board for $4000 off list.