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RE: which SME for OC9ML/II

Posted by John Elison (A) on February 22, 2017 at 21:13:32

In Reply to: RE: which SME for OC9ML/II posted by kal800 on February 22, 2017 at 15:03:19:

The SME III is the best of the two. Get the black enameled carrying arm with modern Lofgren A geometry. I owned this tonearm for 20-years and I used moving coil cartridges exclusively. It is perfect for the OC9ML/II when using the 4.4-gram headshell weight along with all the counterweights installed. This configuration has 10 to 11-grams effective mass. I played the original AT-OC9 for three or four years in my SME III and the arm/cartridge resonance frequency was 10-Hz. If you can't afford one of the newer SME arms, the SME III is one of the very best and most versatile tonearms I ever owned.

Good luck,
John Elison

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