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Grado Labratory Wood Tonearm? 3 questions: Keep it? Sell It? Burn it?

Hello all,

I recently bought a great Thorens TD 124 off CL and attached to it was The Awesome looking Grado Laboratory Series Wood Tonearm (the one with all the extra adjustments)...I know there have been a few discussions here regarding this arm but those threads seem to quickly shift to what ever tonearm is someone's favorite...For this discussion I would like to know specifically what your opinion/experiences are regarding this arm and if you think it is worthy of its companion?  I already have an SME 3009 series II unimproved waiting in the wings but I digress, so the 124 I have is still in resto so a listening test is not available.  That being said the Grado was completely disassembled cleaned/lubed and wired from the board out to Cardas RCAs (not from the shell to the board) it is as good as this arm can get, It truly is a work of art!  It looks very cool...  But does it have any relevance in todays sonics?  

rikintpa

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rauliruegas
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Dear @rikintpa: My experiences with Grado tonearm is this model, I owned for some years and it's a good tonearm. I don't know nothing about that wood model you are mentioned:

https://www.vinylengine.com/library/grado/signature-laboratory-standard.shtml

I agree with the @lewm advise, just follow it.


Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.
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