Reed Tonearms 3P as new in original Factory box

For Sale: Reed 3P Tonearm

Fun to Listen to. The Reed is simply fun to listen to, it has edges and texture.

Fluidity. The Reed has musical flow in spades. It is expert at delivering a fluid, mobile musical line.

The Wood Effect. Reed's engaging quality is in the wooden armtube. The manufacturer believes strongly that wood is the best armtube material and has posted laboratory test results and a white paper to support it.

Bottom line: amazingly neutral, ie uninflected, what had been a front-end with a significant performance issue is now infectiously engaging. The Reed 3P makes music fun to listen to."

Options
• 12" arm length
• Cocobolo armtube
• Cryo copper wire dedicated phono cables with Eichmann Bullet Plugs. The phono cable is fixed and not interchangeable. Reed believes the wire must be one solid run from the cartridge leads through to the RCA (or XLR) termination.
• normal and heavy counterweights to accommodate various cartridges.
Innovative bearing system – a mix of gimbal and unipivot principles

The 3P has a yoke, which makes it a gimbal, but it acts like a unipivot. There are three pivot points on the yoke. Magnetic stabilizers are used on both vertical and horizontal axis. The resulting bearing system is as rigid as a gimbal, but its friction coefficient is as low as in unipivot.

The level of craftsmanship is superior and allowing 3x fine tunings ON THE FLY:
1) Magnetic antiskating
Opposing magnets are used in the anti-skating mechanism. As you make adjustments, it brings the magnets closer or further apart, exerting more or less pull. This can be manipulated on-the-fly, that is, while playing a record.
2) Fine VTA adjustment
There's a knob on top of the arm tower for fine VTA adjustment. Below it and on the side is a coarse VTA adjuster. Both of these can be manipulated on the fly. (I was informed that most arms supporting on-the-fly VTA generally weigh a ton, with bulky and heavy mechanisms. This prevents them from being used with suspended tables. Not an issue for the 3P, whose mechanism is comparatively lightweight. It will not knock turntable suspensions out of alignment.)
3) Azimuth adjustment
Right where the pivot point is on the arm, there's a lever for fine azimuth adjustment. Only Reed allows on-the-fly azimuth adjustment.

Read Positive Feedback - Marshall Nack issue 72 (Mar/Apr 2014)
Come complete with factory wooden box, all accessories and protractor for 3P.
Paypal is extra 4%. Turntable, cartridge are not included, only TONEARM Reed 3P. See my other classifications. Thank you for looking