New Ortophon Tonearms?

Like Bhoage, I have the Phantom and AS-309S on my Raven AC-3 and heartily agree with his assessment.

The AS-309s has a great relaxed feel to the way it plays music and is a great tracker. AS Vtvu said, the detachable headshell is great.

I just got a SPU classic GM-E and it is playing wonderfully beautiful music

Grimace

I can't see why not. Overall the AS309-S is lighter than the Phantom I have. Phantom's are used all the time on SOTA's, so it should not be a problem.

Not sure if adding a 30 gm SPU to the equation would not cause any issues thou, but again I doubt it.

Grimace,

looking at your turntable, I don't think the 12 inch version is going to fit. You need at least 311 mm for tonearm pivot to to spindle. Whereas the 9 inch version fit fine with pivot to spindle of 214mm. I would double check with SOTA.

BTW, the AT OC9 sounds wonderful with the Ortofon arm. I own the OC9 (Lryalike) and it is a very detailed cartidge with a nice tight bass, at the price it is very good. Coupled with the ortofon arm just relaxes the cartridge a little to show it at its best.