markm1111 Posted November 12, 2019 Posted November 12, 2019 I'm trying to complete a project, and need a 12" tonearm. I pulled together a Kuzma Stabi S12 (the 12 inch pipe version of the Stabi S), so looking for a tonearm to match. I'm trying to keep the budget down, so at this stage not looking at new Kuzma arms even though they would be an excellent match. (although I do have a WTB up for anything second hand......) In my travels I have come across a few arms from Opera-Consonance, the Chinese manufacturer. They are a T8-12, a Trio, and T88S (unipivot). These are current or just superseded models. The older ones were the T1288 unipivot and the ST600 Does anyone have any experience with these arms? Positives, negatives, ease of use etc? There is not a lot I could find despite quite a bit of time spent with Dr Google
pulinap Posted November 12, 2019 Posted November 12, 2019 If you can find the older Consonance unipivot.... They stopped manufacturing it as it was too extensive to make at that selling price...a bargain.
markm1111 Posted November 12, 2019 Author Posted November 12, 2019 1 minute ago, pulinap said: If you can find the older Consonance unipivot.... They stopped manufacturing it as it was too extensive to make at that selling price...a bargain. Thanks pulinap. Which one do you mean, the T1288? What was so good about them?
pulinap Posted November 12, 2019 Posted November 12, 2019 Nope I think it is ST600. Probably not a unipivot.... They used to sell it with their top of the line TT. There are some old reviews on net.
Mat-with-one-t Posted November 13, 2019 Posted November 13, 2019 I’m still on the search too. Perhaps a different application in my case? I’m looking at perhaps an arm for SPU setups. I reckon a Groovemaster 2 is the choice, but no chance of finding a cheap one I don’t think?! ive read good things about the Opera arms. Pretty much everything they make seems high quality.... 1
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