He then received my tone arm and called me.said it was actually 400 usd.he said he hadn't gotten around to updating his website. After emailing SMEtonearms Canada inquiring about this service, Alfred called me and said it was in USD as most of his work is with international clients.I said ok.but you should make it clear on your website.so i sent him my tonearm. Includes manuals, tools and templates and Top LIne Swiss made Neutrik 18k gold RCA connectors. The compromises involved are greater than those in a pivoted arm.īut see my avatar for what I have found to be a solution.You decide about his SME 3009 rewire option.Alfred's Canadian Website says that he charges $350.00 for rewiring using top quality parts, includes any original SME parts to make the arm as good as new(bearings etc). Did you examine this aspect? Do you agree with the central issue?Īn ongoing criticism of most parallel tracking arm set-ups is that they are a spider to catch a fly. So with only your photo to guide me, it does appear the articulations at the headshell are small and poorly engineered and must allow free-play. And to the generations of arm designers who have engineered increasingly large bearings with vanishingly small free-play, as applauded by Mr Fremer. We have been taught that any free-play or jitter in the turntable/arm/cartridge interface will create distortion by allowing the stylus to move of itself not driven by the modulations in the disc groove. I am concerned about the structural integrity of the articulations at the headshell. So if the Jochum Bruckner 8th is one of your two favourites which is the other one? It must be the Furtwangler with the VPO from 1944 right? It has to be.Ī longtime reader of Stereophile and of John Atkinson since HFN/RR days. Not as good as Philips pressings but good enough. I think it might just be bad luck on your part Art, the DG recordings I own are very quiet unless, and it has happened, some previous owner's stylus was not up to par, but that is rare and have been very happy with the quality of the DG vinyl I have purchased. Have three Shure V15's and still use them to this day. Secondly, purchased a Shure V15 MK V cartridge that came with this ingenious overhang slot gauge that further took away the guesswork of aligning the cartridge. Fortunately, I did two things that cured my nervosa I purchased an SME tonearm with its fixed mounting for cartridge and its sliding rail for overhang adjustment, voila overnight everything came into place. Got so frustrated, I nearly gave up on vinyl. Used to spend hours in the late 80's looking, adjusting then readjusting then tightening my cartridge on my Dennesen protractor only to go back and look at the cartridge from another angle and start all over again.
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