What Tonearm Adorns Your VPI?

What Tonearm Adorns Your VPI Table?

  • VPI

    Votes: 27 67.5%
  • Graham

    Votes: 1 2.5%
  • SME

    Votes: 3 7.5%
  • TriPlanar

    Votes: 2 5.0%
  • ET II

    Votes: 4 10.0%
  • Clearaudio Linear

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Clearaudio pivoted

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Immedia

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Helius

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 5 12.5%

  • Total voters
    40

MylesBAstor

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One of the beauties of the VPI table is that it is a great platform for most arms be they of the linear or 9-10 or 12 inch pivoted variety.

What arm did you chose to mate to your table and what are your impressions?
 

jadis

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ET2. I have read that my VPI HW19MKIIs mates well with them. Right, it's the stable platform that is outstanding in VPI's design. I was considering too, at that time, TTs from Oracle and Sota. But alas, the ET2 would not mate too well with them.
 

msm_1

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Mine came with the JMW 9, and was a 2 month demo. It also had the optional anti-skate and dust cover. My dealer had just taken a used Koetsu Black in ( great shape, cleaned and inspected ) and gave me a fantastic price on it ( $ 2,100.00cdn total for everything ) I'm looking at the possible upgrade of the 9 to the Valhalla 9" with either the Valhalla junction box or the Balanced box, depending on my new pre

Thanks

Mike
 

MylesBAstor

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ET2. I have read that my VPI HW19MKIIs mates well with them. Right, it's the stable platform that is outstanding in VPI's design. I was considering too, at that time, TTs from Oracle and Sota. But alas, the ET2 would not mate too well with them.

Which wand and internal wiring are you using with the ET?
 

jadis

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Which wand and internal wiring are you using with the ET?

Myles, I'm still using the original arm, without any mods. I'm not a guy who tinkers a lot with mods, it's just me, I'm not up to these tweaks.
 

tdh888

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Hi Myles,

Im currently using a Kuzma Stogi Reference w/c VPI marketed & imported during the early 90's

tdh888
 

JackD201

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My former tables :)



 

flez007

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I had a VPI HW19 with TNT platter - nice table- with a Denon 103R and a Rega300 if my memory serves me well. Looking for pictures.....
 

mep

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Here is a pic of my old TNT with ET-2:
 

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mep

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Here is a shot of my TNT with a FR-64s tonearm:
 

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flez007

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pic found! - it was indeed an RB300/Denon 103R set-up.
 

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tdh888

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Hi,

I recently installed my Kuzma Stogi REF 313 VTA to my VPI TNT 6. Im very happy w/ its performance and its quite an improvement from my former Kuzma Stogi Ref .

930 turbo
 

tdh888

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Here's the picture of my VPI TNT 6 w/ the new tonearm.
 

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Don C

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TNT III with original JMW-10 from 1999.

Added the SDS and stainless steel clamp.

No reason to change, as I notice no deficiencies.

Never liked the dropped counterweight or Nordost wire of more recent VPI arms.
 

MylesBAstor

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