[mick wolfe]

Just read that Jelco is closing down. Covid 19, many elderly employees and tooling/equipment that needed updated or replaced. Basically sounds like the owner was ready to call it quits and retire anyway. Maybe we'll get more accurate information in the future, but it looks like they're done.

[paul79]

Sad, as this company made arms that performed way beyond their pricing in my opinion. Just speaking in past tense like this, feels wrong. Hopefully someone like SME will buy them out and keep it going!

[dolsey01]

Seems ripe for a buy out.

[SET Man]

Hey!

  Man! You would thought that with all of the vinyl revival that have been going on the past few years, they would be doing well and have people carry it over. This is a blow to Hi-End analog market. There aren't many people making separate quality affordable... relatively speaker... tonearms out there now. I've read somewhere last year that SME will also stop selling tonearms by themselves.

Buddy

[S Clark]

Hope this isn't the end for them.  Jelco sits in a sweet spot for price and quality.  For those of us willing to spend hundreds of dollars for a decent arm, they are sorta by themselves in that position.  If you want to spend thousands, there are lots of choices. 

[mick wolfe]

Hope this isn't the end for them.  Jelco sits in a sweet spot for price and quality.  For those of us willing to spend hundreds of dollars for a decent arm, they are sorta by themselves in that position.  If you want to spend thousands, there are lots of choices.

Couldn't agree more.  Hopefully someone steps up and buys them.  If that happens, however, that might also be the end of "the sweet spot for price and quality". 

[beeah]

You would thought that with all of the vinyl revival that have been going on the past few years, they would be doing well and have people carry it over.

That same logic was mentioned when Shure pulled the plug on cartridges not so long ago.