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What is the downside of that ?

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My old original Kondo Io is adequate in my Tri-Planar. I am biased as I have wanted one for years!

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Get a V why feck about x

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I have an IO Gold on a V. You really need the extra counterweight if you want to dial the Io in properly.

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So true, I have an extra one on my Graham arm.

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The Io was absolutely great on the Clearaudio deck I sold to @Bolts. The tonearm was a Unify carbon. I wonder if the higher end Clearaudio arms would be worth investigating…

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I have owned an Io1, Io Gold and Io Ltd. I still have a Gold and Ltd.

They all work very, very well with my AN arm

https://www.audionote.co.uk/arm-three

I’m not saying it’s the best arm in the world, but it does work very well with Io’s - hardly surprising, since I would assume they had this in mind when they designed it.

I suspect it won’t be expensive enough though :wink:

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@murrayjohnson what arm was Kondo using with the Io’s when you went to Jpn? Any thoughts on eff mass?

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Bloody Hell i am spoilt for choice. Thanks for all the suggestions now for the homework. :smiley:

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When I visited he was using some big Denon TT with a Helius Cyalene that PQ would have sent to him. See below.

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But you’ll also notice a Final turntable on the lower shelf to the left although I can’t make out what the arm is. it appears to have a round gimbal & be fairly substantial.

Behind the ‘normal’ looking speakers there was a multi-way YL system but by this time he’d decided they were too large, heavy & unwieldy to be supplying to too many customers.

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The Io gold is substantially heavier than a standard Io1.
Io gold is 20gms

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Sorry Guy that wasn’t directed at you but to some who have mentioned other arms which may be Ok with an Io1 but not with a gold

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Audio Note Japan weren’t making any lightweight Io’s at that time. They were all 20g.

That said they were also making the Soara which had a much lighter body & which did also sound lovely. Slightly softer & sweeter than an Io.

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Lovely. Nice Sony broadcast monitor as well :grin:

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Shame it’s 110V = faff

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You can buy a transformer for ÂŁ50. A lot cheaper than a decent watch.

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True, true

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I had one for years, it was lovely.

No idea what happened to it, could only find the box after we moved house :tired_face:

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Reed Audio 2G tonearm with Macassar Ebony wand. New €2900 Audiomarkt

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