new Talea tonearm

Posted by mikel (A) on June 6, 2010 at 20:29:54

a few months back i ordered a new tonearm, The Talea, designed and built here in the Seattle area by Joel Durand. this weekend Joel delivered and set up the Talea on the Dobbins Garrard 301. i have Talea #11. i moved my Reed 2P to the Dobbins Technics SP-10 Mk3 along with the Reed 2A already there.....so there are 2 Reed's on the Technics. i did fnally purchase a Fieckert protractor so i could properly move the arms around and still dial in 'spindle to pivot' distance precisely.

the Talea is a uni-pivot with an effective length of 10.35 inches. it has a wood arm wand. it has 'on-the-fly' VTA adjustment as well as 'on-the-fly' azimuth adjustment. it's finished like a jewel. Joel had brought over his prototype Talea to my room twice over the last year for me to hear in my system. each time i was very impressed. Joel mounted one of my A90's on the Talea.....the arm is about dead level to my eyes and we ended up at about 1.86 grams VTF after some time. this particular A90 has about 110 hours on it.

i'm very happy with what i hear from the Talea and look forward to really getting to know it.

i still have one spot left for another tonearm, and my plan is if/when i sell a few things i'll buy a vintage arm of some type and mount one of the lower cost cartridges that i have on it. can these less expensive arms and carts compete with the big boys? we'll finally see for ourselves.

and when that happens my goal of 3 tt's and 5 arms will be complete.

Oh and btw, i purchased a Mono cartridge for the 2nd Reed arm on the Technics....the Miyajima Labs Premium BE Mono. (link below).

i've been on the hunt for a mono cartridge for a few months, a local friend had one so i could hear it, and i liked it. the Mayajima Mono was comapred directly to a stereo Dynavector XV-1s on the same tt and on 6 out of 8 Mono lps i preferred the Mono by a good margin. the XV-1s is a pretty darn good cartridge which i owned myself a few years ago.

the Mono BE should be here later this week. i have 400-500 mono Lps i'm looking forward to hearing as god meant them to be heard.

Miyajima Labs Premium Mono BE (Open in New Window)

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Topic - new Talea tonearm - mikel 20:29:54 06/06/10 (17)

RE: new Talea tonearm - gouldglen 11:55:43 06/08/10 (2)

RE: new Talea tonearm - mikel 21:05:06 06/08/10 (1)

RE: new Talea tonearm - gouldglen 11:25:39 06/09/10 (0)

RE: new Talea tonearm - Dan_ed 08:06:57 06/08/10 (0)

RE: new Talea tonearm - Lew 07:46:58 06/07/10 (3)

RE: new Talea tonearm - mikel 08:58:38 06/07/10 (2)

RE: new Talea tonearm - jazdoc 15:48:17 06/07/10 (0)

RE: new Talea tonearm - Lew 13:34:56 06/07/10 (0)

RE: new Talea tonearm - Dan_ed 06:32:38 06/07/10 (7)

RE: new Talea tonearm - mikel 07:02:54 06/07/10 (6)

RE: new Talea tonearm - Dan_ed 07:48:45 06/07/10 (5)

RE: new Talea tonearm - Lew 08:13:16 06/07/10 (4)

RE: new Talea tonearm compares to? - GerryM5 09:17:36 06/07/10 (3)

RE: new Talea tonearm compares to? - Lew 13:39:52 06/07/10 (2)

RE: new Talea tonearm compares to? - mikel 15:34:01 06/07/10 (1)

So too does the Triplanar... - Lew 20:09:28 06/07/10 (0)

RE: new Talea tonearm - mosin 20:46:10 06/06/10 (0)

new Talea tonearm

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