1. The Trio/Kenwood kd-700 stock tonearm 9.5inch . I have three of them. They are just so good in the light weight tonearm category.
2. Denon DA-309 this is Denon’s flagship 9inch light weight tonearm. Its answer to the now very expensive Technics EPA-100 tonearm.
For the step up transformer I have the 10/40 times AU-320 to try. If it doesn’t match I think I will let it direct into my MC phono which is spec to take as low as 0.05mV MC.
Yes, I worried. So I added an tonearm stand and prepared Denon DA-305 which is native arm for DL-103 cartridge and also ordered a Fidelity research FR-54 which I read is 16gram mass and quite similar to Ortofon 9inch arm design.
SPU has been on my mind for over 1 year. Due to its higher price and so many variations. I have missed chances to buy one. A few days ago I revisited the SPU offering on the net and still not decided. Until I read a blog that has same image of one of the offer. It was an early SPU in 1979-1988...