Reed 5A pivoted tangential-tracker tonearm on a Classic Turntable Company 301 Reference

Just a quick, and hopefully silent, view of how the Reed 5A works

[@JordaoDM]

impressive

[@jean-micheldeleaz7248]

Ce bras pantographe me rappelle le bras qui équipait les platines vinyles Garrard 😮

[@Rensselaer1586]

Le bras (Reed 5A) est un bras pivotant a suivi tangentiel, qui a l’air de la vieille e’cole, mais beaucoup plus.

[@newdevilman1167]

How do you like the arm? I am thinking of getting one

[@Rensselaer1586]

I like the arm a great deal, but only have two other tonearms in my past to compare with so not a great source for information. It meets my desire to use the best technology in an old skool appearance (I don’t like the looks of the laser-guided Reed linear tracker, massive superstructure turntables like Clearaudio, or huge modern multi speaker towers), and Reed has a very good reputation. I came into some inheritance so rebuilt my sound system with that in mind. I started from the perspective of the triodes and horns fraternity. SET’s sound different, more emotion. Usually low powered so one needs high sensitivity horn speakers. Back in the 80’s Japan was selling Americans transistorised stacked systems (Denon, Sony, Nakamichi, etc.) with less than 0.0001% THD (through feedback), Japanese audiophiles were coming to America and buying up movie theatre sound systems (Altec voice of the theatre speakers and small valve-powered Loftin-White amplifiers), and rebuilding them with the best available parts. Turntables, as a rule, were Garrard 301’s mounted in solid wood plinths (later veneered ply as layers convert sound vibrations to heat). The Garrard’s chassis was flexible pot metal so Classic Turntable Co. built mine of CNC-machined brass, same platter. My plinth is made of Panzerholz (Spruce ply saturated with phenolic resin) which is used in grand pianos to hold the harp (to prevent conduction from harp to frame, sound board). The Reed is a linear tracker without all the superstructure. Other considerations, capacitance is bad, keep it as low in cables and equipment as possible. My phono amp uses valves and transformers instead of capacitors. Naturally that and SUT’s instead of a preamp with MM/MC . Anyway, good luck with your system.

[@newdevilman1167]

@@Rensselaer1586 thank you so much for information and your audio journey. I am more into modern sound. Great soundstage and imaging, yet fast bass and great immersive height. So I got PlatiMon VC speakers from Mon Acoustic and thinking of getting Reed Muse 3A turntable with this tonearm. I am currently using Chord Ultima Integrated amps but I want something different. So I am building a new audio system, simple yet great sounding one. Streamer with a DAC, int amp and turntable system. I don’t have ton of turntable experience but usually most of the turntables are great. But need to be careful with cartridges from my past experience.