Black Widow

[Fishoz]

Just came across this on eBay. Don't see them out there much. If anyone interested.
No affiliation.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Infinity-Black-Widow-Tonearm-/252164630253?hash=item3ab62ee6ed

 

[Northwinds]

There is one mint in the box never used being offered on AK

 

[Fishoz]

Same pricing? Could be the same one.

 

[8991XJ]

A couple reasons this one if of no interest to me.
1) the seller is trying to capitalize on the newness of the unit and I'm not a collector needing that feature. This unit may well be on its way to Asia if the seller will ship. There are quite a number of collectors that might have an interest.

2) The time of the ultra-low mass tonearm has passed. There are very few new cartridges out there to use with this arm. I have moved on to cartridges that stress my arms which are 8 and 9 grams effective mass. I have added weight to one arm for proper use with one of the cartridges.

There should be a buyer, priced at least twice what the arm usually goes for and even more when bought with a turntable. For a brand new unit, I would like to seem more pics of the unit not the paper.

That said, I'd like an ∞ BW, they are cool looking tonearms.

 

[orange]

MEH.

 

[Northwinds]

Same pricing? Could be the same one.

It appears to be the same one, pics are the same as the ad (which I can't find)

There is carts out there for this arm

 

[MarkWComer]

It's beautiful! Also too damned expensive...

I knew someone way back in the '80s that had one mounted on a Luxman TT. I was so envious!

As for low mass carts, I have some difficulty just with my OM-30 being too light on my Pioneer linear tracker. Since I got the table used, I didn't get all the accessories, especially the smaller counterweight. The counterweight I have is slap-ass against the tonearm mount and I can't go any lighter, fortunately at this setting I'm getting ~1.3 grams.

I bought a Concorde 30 expecting to use it on this Pioneer, and it's even lighter than the OM-30/headshell combo.

Off to the machine shop to see if they can help me! Maybe a 3-D printing service can "print" one for me?

 

[laatsch55]

Had one mounted on my Denon DP 1500....

 

[stuwee]

Who collects vintage tonearms in the original box? And not complete at that... nice arm though

 

[Fishoz]

Had one mounted on my Denon DP 1500....

And you don't currently have it in your system....why?

That was a nice setup.

 

[laatsch55]

Lost it in a garage fire.....broke my heart, but not as much as now as I realize what I had. Thinking vinyl was a dead medium..dead quiet table and pretty good looking also..

 

[laatsch55]

And it had an ADC "Astrion" cartridge....don't hear much about those...

 

[8991XJ]

Well Lee's story about the DP-1500/∞Black Widow continues: http://forums.phxaudiotape.com/showthread.php/7576-DENON-DP-1500-FOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?