Re: SME Series III rewire - how to?

Posted by Fred J (A) on January 9, 2006 at 09:10:27

In Reply to: SME Series III rewire - how to? posted by troporobo on January 8, 2006 at 16:52:24:

If your friend is really good with his hands and has some real mechanical/engineering aptitude I'd asy go for it, as long as he's careful and doesn't actually break smething that arm could always be sent to any number of outfits and would return done up right.

IMHO SME 3009 series III's are superb Ultralight/light tonearms
and well worth working with, I believe they are so common, available for reasonable cost and outside the box as far as design, that a lot of us automatically under-rate them, but within thier effective mass limitations they offer a tremendous amount of tweakability and range particularly if yours is fitted with a damping trough.

And for those not interested or inclined to tweaking/optimizing
Series III's are very easy to set up and forget and achieve serious tracking/warp competence and sound great, very forgiving.

Regards FredJ

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Topic - SME Series III rewire - how to? - troporobo 16:52:24 01/8/06 (13)

Re: SME Series III rewire - how to? - Fred J 01/9/0609:10:27 01/9/06 (2)

I agree with Fred and then some! - tubesforever 15:54:35 01/9/06 (0)

Re: SME Series III rewire - how to? - Fred J 09:19:00 01/9/06 (0)

by the way, SME does not support this arm any more - troporobo 23:59:15 01/8/06 (1)

Re: cheaper to find a replacement arm then - darkstar 07:13:29 01/9/06 (0)

thanks - and one additional question - troporobo 23:57:05 01/8/06 (2)

Try an 'external' rewire and see if that resolves - powermatic 12:04:46 01/9/06 (0)

read eso's post -nt- - darkstar 07:12:15 01/9/06 (0)

My SME III sounds as good as a Cardas rewired Series II - tubesforever 19:38:45 01/8/06 (0)

Re: SME Series III rewire - how to? - eso 19:27:09 01/8/06 (0)

Re: SME Series III rewire - how to? - HenryH 17:52:04 01/8/06 (1)

have done...... important read this - 2395 04:27:47 01/9/06 (0)

Re: SME Series III rewire - how to? - Fred J 17:13:05 01/8/06 (0)

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Re: SME Series III rewire - how to? - Fred J 01/9/0609:10:27 01/9/06 (2)

I agree with Fred and then some! - tubesforever 15:54:35 01/9/06 (0)

Re: SME Series III rewire - how to? - Fred J 09:19:00 01/9/06 (0)

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