Reed 5T

[bonzo75]

Hi, anybody who owns this?

 

[spiritofmusic]

Exlibris?
Didn't MikeL have a Reed on his 301?

 

[bonzo75]

Exlibris?
Didn't MikeL have a Reed on his 301?

3p is very different to 5T, latter is a linear tracker, introduced a year or so ago

 

[spiritofmusic]

AudioQuattr?

 

[Ron Resnick]

audioquattr formerly auditioned a 5T. I thought the Grado Epoch sounded greatly epic on the 5T on the TechDAS AF3P. It sounded so alive and ethereal and freed from the grooves that I was ready to buy that cartridge/tonearm combination on the spot.

But the 5T is a bit of a Rube Goldberg contraption. I’m not saying it seems too complicated, but, to this layman, it seems complicated.

The 5T uses a laser to keep the linear tracker on track. Literally while we were playing a record, the setting sun outside audioquattr’s window descended at just the right angle to be seen by the 5T’s optical system and, blinded by the sun, the tonearm threw a fit, jumping across the record.

Hopefully audioquattr will weigh in here.

 

[bonzo75]

audioquattr formerly auditioned a 5T. I thought the Grado Epoch sounded greatly epic on the 5T on the TechDAS AF3P. It sounded so alive and ethereal and freed from the grooves that I was ready to buy that cartridge/tonearm combination on the spot.

But the 5T is a bit of a Rube Goldberg contraption. I’m not saying it seems too complicated, but, to this layman, it seems complicated.

The 5T uses a laser to keep the linear tracker on track. Literally while we were playing a record, the setting sun outside audioquattr’s window descended at just the right angle to be seen by the 5T’s optical system and, blinded by the sun, the tonearm threw a fit, jumping across the record.

Hopefully audioquattr will weigh in here.

No sunlight. That's why analog set up is called the dark art

 

[108CY]

I own a 5T amongst other tonearms,the 5T is a wonderful gem of a tonearm indeed set up is a little tricky and takes a bit of time and patience, it is superbly well made, with the appropriate cartridge set up it produces great Midrange presence with a floating ability I find it in comparison it highlights colour on say a Fidelity research fr66 and more so than an ikeda.

The tonearm has produces a wonderful expansive sound stage maybe not the most solid sounding in the bottom end but also does very very well in the grain department. This arm in my opinion is one the special un gems out there it has a true ability to captivate you and draw you into the music that is only heard from a select few tonearms.

 

[Vienna]

A friend of mine had great expectations from this Tonearm and was very disappointed. Had ordered it with Macassar ebony wand.

 

[108CY]

A friend of mine had great expectations from this Tonearm and was very disappointed. Had ordered it with Macassar ebony wand.

certainly not for the faint hearted

 

[Vienna]

certainly not for the faint hearted

I had listened this Tonearm too, it was a disaster at the bottom end

 

[108CY]

I had listened this Tonearm too, it was a disaster at the bottom end

Like everything its down to correct matching of turntable and cartridge and system, I can get it sounding quite sublime.

 

[Ron Resnick]

A friend of mine had great expectations from this Tonearm and was very disappointed. Had ordered it with Macassar ebony wand.

In what ways was your friend disappointed in the Reed 5T?

 

[Vienna]

In what ways was your friend disappointed in the Reed 5T?

He dealt with this tonearm for two weeks before returning it back. He told me that the tonearm is consisiting of too many individual elements which are vibrating and resonating

 

[Ron Resnick]

He dealt with this tonearm for two weeks before returning it back. He told me that the tonearm is consisiting of too many individual elements which are vibrating and resonating

Very interesting. Thank you.

I still have a fascination with the 5T because I heard airiness and ethereal magic like I have never heard before when the Grado Epoch was on the 5T at audioquattr three years ago.