Shelter 90x, Michell Gyro SE and ?


Hi,

My system consist of : Michell Gyro SE, Shelter 90x and Michell Tecnoarm.
I'm looking to upgrade the tonearm. I want a tonearm that will have great synergy with the Shelter.
I was thinking the Triplanar VII, but I read good and bad comments about mating it with the Shelter.
The other tonearms I had in mind are the SME V, Moerch DP6 and Graham Phantom.

I need help to pick up the right arm.

Thank you,

Lucio
huho

Showing 1 response by silverprint

I'd first try to get a clue about the different characteristics of the various tonearm types, unipovot, static balance, dynamic balance.

Morch and Graham are unipivots, Triplanar has a conventional articulation and a hell of adjustments, SME IV and V have easy and effective regulations and are dynamycally balanced. The Technoarm is dynamically balanced too.

Also check the overall weight you can put on the springs of the gyro: maybe some arms could be just too heavy to obtain a proper balance.

Secondly if you have no idea of what sort of improvement you are looking for, any specific suggestion will not be of much use.

The technoarm is a fine upgrade of an already nice Rega, i fear the improvements will end up to be minor unless the whole chain is really top.

BTW... is the electrical and mechanical interface of the cart done properly? Ie: correct gain, loading impedance, vta, vtf, resonance, allignment...
There maybe lots of surprises in improving those adjustable parameters.

KR