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In Reply to: RE: Other tonearms with SME mounting pattern. posted by Quadzilla on August 14, 2020 at 09:26:21
There really is not another tonearm besides the Black Widow( not so good IMO), the Mission which might be functional and the Mayware that are reasonably good for using star quality MM cartridges which require light mass tonearms. If you had access to the Mayware I would agree that it might be good to sell your SME. However, your SME III might be the only aged quality light mass tonearm that you encounter at all and the SME III is a superb match for MM carts of quality. I have the shell of a V15VxMR which would shine in your arm(Never found the Mayware that I wanted. Only broken...)
Richard
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It isn't very good at all. I was hoping to learn that I was overlooking an obvious choice to replace the SME with little or no drama. It doesn't look like I will keep the Planar 3, and I have already sold the SME. It went very quickly actually.
Sorry, Donald, there just isn't enough of Mount Rushmore left to carve that bowl of mashed potatoes on your head, but maybe we could get them to do your tiny hands.
a very good combo. Used both a Shure V15 Type IV with Jico SAS stylus and a Grace F9E.
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My only real complaint was that there were only a very few cartridges that worked well with it. That wasn't a real problem back in the 80s when low-mass cartridges were believed to be the answer, but most cartridges today would be unsuitable. I certainly wouldn't recommend a moving coil with it.
Sorry, Donald, there just isn't enough of Mount Rushmore left to carve that bowl of mashed potatoes on your head, but maybe we could get them to do your tiny hands.
Of course, only high compliance carts worked well with it. It wasn't the mass of the cart, so much as the compliance. In fact, the Widow and possibly the 5g SME III were the only arms capable of handling the original ADC XLM, which had insanely high dynamic compliance.
Opus 33 1/3
That is correct. I used an Ortofon LM30 with mine, then a Grace F9E. High-compliance was deemed to be the way to do it back then, but thankfully that thinking is no longer in vogue.
Sorry, Donald, there just isn't enough of Mount Rushmore left to carve that bowl of mashed potatoes on your head, but maybe we could get them to do your tiny hands.
Opus 33 1/3
I still have my Grace F-9E cartridge body. I won't ever get around to replace the stylus, but it was one of my all-time favourites. I still use an F-10L MOMC on my Linn Sondek.
Sorry, Donald, there just isn't enough of Mount Rushmore left to carve that bowl of mashed potatoes on your head, but maybe we could get them to do your tiny hands.
Opus 33 1/3
I was glad to get rid of the Black Widow, but I really wish that I had kept my F-9E Ruby. I have an F-9 body still and I understand that Soundsmith sells replacement styli for it, but ordering anything from the US is a big problem now.
Sorry, Donald, there just isn't enough of Mount Rushmore left to carve that bowl of mashed potatoes on your head, but maybe we could get them to do your tiny hands.
Opus 33 1/3
I sold my F-9 body this morning, but I would rather see someone enjoy it than to have it sit in a drawer for another 30 years.
I don't really have a suitable tonearm for it, and I have plenty of other cartridges to play with.
Sorry, Donald, there just isn't enough of Mount Rushmore left to carve that bowl of mashed potatoes on your head, but maybe we could get them to do your tiny hands.
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