SAEC WE 506/30 incoming. Anybody here with any experience with this arm?
Dear @ps68 : I have no specific agenda about your post and please read that I posted: " maybe ", thank's to fix it but even that my opinion about the Vivid is the same. Btw and due that you like cap item changes/modification. This link is a interesting one about: https://sound-au.com/articles/capacitors.htm R. |
Dear @ps68 : Maybe you are the Viv tonearm UK distributor as some of the system items you show in your Agon virtual system . If you really are a Vivid distributor then what you posted/opinion could be severely biased to. As you I'm an experienced music lover and audiophile ( maybe not at your levels and certainly with golden ears. ) ) and owned over 25 different tonearms and listened to other too in my system and other gentleman systems and I sold out the SAEC 506 and 8000 because there are better performers. No the 506 is not " wonderful " only a decent one. I can see that you modified the ML speakers crossover with boutique caps/inductors and resistors and puts on sale. Well, those Duelund resistors are the worst one of the boutique type resistors but a loudspeaker what's need is not boutique parts but well engennering parts like the powertron resistors by Vishay or humble uncolored caps as Wima, Vishay or Kemet. All these well engeneering passive devices really are way better than the boputique ones. I had and have first hand experiences in electronics and speakers with the $$$ boutique parts against the humble well engeneering designed passive parts. No, I'm not an audio distributor of anything. R. |
Dear @tkr : The 506-30 was one of the oldest SAEC designs and was designed expressily for radio stations and not for home audio systems and that's why comes with out arm lift. Over the years and due that the market ask for SAEC designed a truly " lovely " stand alone arm lift. When I bougth my tonearm sample I bougth too that arm lift. Time to time appears in ebay and Yahoo Japan. All the spec numbers in SAEC tonearms but the 8000 ( that I owned too. ) say that the cartridge/tonearm alignment is near Stevenson alignment as many other Japanese tonearms. The worst of any of the standard alignments but you don't have to follow using it you can align it for Löfgren A or B with the protractor you own. I used with Löfgreen A. It performs good with no problems. I can't remember the effective mass that I have somewhere. Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
