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Top 5 Tonearms Newer or Vintage Under 2500 That Will Beat anything above/below 2.5k?

From all your tonearm experiences trials errors comparisons etc is there a Top 5 tonearm list that are known for their musical superlatives in all music ranges and genres? including finer detail nuances feeling, 3d sound but also deep bass and midbass, basspunch. Airy highs. And importantly long hours listening without fatigue.
The criteria also to be met are easy setups for all angles vta vfa azimuth anti skating etc 
The Tonearm must also the ability to use more than just one or two cartridge compatibility.

Probable Turntables to be Used: Garrard 301/401, Lenco, Linn, Thorens 124, Technics 1100 1200 10 or 15. 

Heres the list i compiled of ToneArms to pick from.
Feel free to mention others.

  • Tw Raven, D Talea, Graham 2.2/phantom, Moerch, Origin Live, Vpi, 
  • AudioMods

  • Clear Audio, Stax, Rega, Technics 500/1000, Sumiko, Alphason, Black Widow, One unipivot, Saec, Clear Audio, Basis Vector, Triplanar

  • Origin Silver, Rega 9, Linn Ittok, Project, Technics 500/1000,
  •  Alphason, Audio Technica, Dynavector 507

    Grace, Mission, Grado, Ortofon, EMT, Thorens Tp,
  • ESL, Sme 3012, Sme 3009, Sme V, IV,

  • Schroeder, Kuzma, Eminent, Ikeda, Breuer, 
    Stax, Kenwood 007 arm, Sonys top Arm, Artemis
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rauliruegas04-12-2018 2:41pm
Your thread has no sense at least what you stated ... stupid ... Stupid things ... ignorant ...  no-sense statement ...  Your logic about those cartridges with diferent color has no sense ...  other gentlemans already gave you opinions in your no-sense statement ...  you like to live in that " audio world " a wrong/dark one ...
Not everyone who disagrees with you is stupid, Raul. Not all of the "ignorant" people who disagree with you are wrong.

 
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lewm
"VTA adjustment on the fly" is perhaps the most over-stated feature of any tonearm.
Perhaps. One of the problems with on the fly VTA is that when you change VTA, you're changing a bunch of things. Of course you also change SRA, but you're also changing VTF, overhang and tangency and potentially altering azimuth, too. So the notion that changing VTA on the fly let's you "dial in the sound" isn't quite accurate.

Who here has ever tried to adjust VTA while playing an LP, which is presumably the meaning of the term? Unless you don't care about the LP or the cantilever, this simply cannot and probably should not be done, without trauma to either component. 
This is mistaken. Of course it's difficult to do on a lightweight turntable or one with a very compliant suspension. But something like an SME V on a heavy plinth turntable such as a VPI TNT does allow for the safe adjustment of VTA while a record is playing.

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