Please recommend used tonearm under $1K

Dear Applebook: This one has very good performance and could be your last tonearm:

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtnrm&1275516349&/Lustre-GST-801-Tonearm

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Stanwal: +++++ " and I believe more likely to fit a wide range of cartridges. " +++++

do you mean against the Lustre? if yes: could you explain about? because the Lustre is a removable headshell design where you can change the effective mass. I use the Lustre with low weight high compliance MM/MI cartridges and with high weight low compliane LOMC cartridges and always performs just great.

In the other side the Lustre design was a way better design ( for many years to come. ) that the time/year where see the " light ".
It is a dinamic balanced design where you can run it in that way or in static balance way, very good tonearm bearing, azymuth control through the headshell, different weight counterweights to mount any cartridge, VTF is applied through a magnetic mechanism as the antistatic one, VTA on the fly, internal wiring is silver and its internal damping ( no oil ) is very good.

Can you ask for more?, maybe but IMHO not through the Jelco ( that I like ) or even the TransFi. IMHO the Lustre is an " arm " and many today top designs could " envy " or " dream " with the Lustre overall design.

Maybe you need to test today that Lustre if you have any opportunity about.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Stanwal: +++++ " protracted debate over questions that involve opinion and taste " +++++

come on, don't you read some of the Lustre characteristics? do you know how name it?: D E S I G N .

If you don't have on hand the Lustre you can't speak about, buy the one on the link and try it and then comeback. Btw, I owned several Jelco and Jelco OEM tonearms, nothing wrong with them but the Lustre is on a way different quality level.
Please tell me 2-3 vintage or today tonearms that outperform it not because you " imagine " that but because you already test them against the Lustre.

I respect you but seems to me that you don't know what you are talking about.

Applebook, needs help not a useless controversy where you have no real and precise today evidence about.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Stanwal: +++++ " Whenever anyone says anything you disagree with you attack them personally " +++++

No, the point is that seems to me that you try to diminish what not only is very good tonearm design ( even by today standards. ) but one that has very good build quality and perfromance, that's all.

About the MM/MC cartridge subject this is not the place to talk about, there is a 2,000+ posts thread where you can read several other opinions about like this one from Halcro:
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1200430667&openflup&1991&4#1991

Btw, Nandric agree in this thread with what I posted: thank you Nandric, I agree too on the Technics EPA-100.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Stanwal: That you even prefer that FR64 " crap " of tonearm put things in real perspective.

Anyway, to each one his own.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear nandric: Agree.

Unfortunatelly there are at least two " subjective " factors that affect our each one objective side. One is the subjective hearing ( what we heard. about ) and the other is that we want " win " the controversy and always are the " emotions " down there.

IMHO the main point/subject/target in this Agon Forum is not only give an opinion to " win " or whatever but to help the other people with no commercial interest on mind.
I'm not saying that in this thread any one could have a commercial attitude, no.

regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Who is HIFICHOICE in the 80s?????

Please don't answer.

Dear nandric: What you explain is what I?m refering to but I can see was a bad explanation from my part.

regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

+++++ " who would promote a P Mount cartridge with adapter as an ultimate cartridge has a perspective different not only from me but from anyone else I know. " +++++

well that your world and " any one else I know " be a small/tiny island does means almost nothing because in the MM/MI thread are several/lot of persons that think those P-mount cartridges are great.

I don't want to ask about several great P-mount cartridges but only one: do you have on hand or heard it in the last month the Azden P50VL?, if not you can't understand why other people but you are so happy enjoying this Azden P-mount cartridge you can't even talk or give an opinion on P-mount cartridges like this Azden.

Good that you own the 205: finally we agree on something. I own the 205MK4 and is really great.

Don't leave that this thread stress you, stay calm and be happy as I'm.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear nandric: T_bone is an audio analog item seller. If you browse through the Agon advertising you can see many tonearms that T_bone carry and has on sale. I have to say too that some of them really good ones.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.