SME Tonearms of Canada - Alfred and Company that sell new and refurbish SME

Just bought a couple of months ago a refurbished 3009s2imp with his Cardas rewire from him. He was nice over the phone and had good comunication with him while the one month ordering period. The arm sounds great!, looks mint, but he forgot to put the cuing lever damping compund on it ( the lever goes down very fast), and to put a  Y terminal on the ground wire ( just stripped wire).  to be fair I didn,t even mentioned this back to him as I was not going to ship back the arm all the way from Mexico to Canada. 

No idea as this is my first SME 3009, but makes sense to me the single run of cable all the way to the RCA,s , you dont need an aditional phono cable.

Yes I,m very happy with the sound; before this I had a borrowed Micro Seiki 505 arm for a couple of months on a recenlty aquiered Technics Sp10 Mk2.  The Micro Seiki arm had its original  internal wire and  I was using a Audioquest amazon silver phono cable.  The Sme 3009 with the single run of cable from Headshell/Cart to the RCA's ( Cardas 33awg OFC ) is so much better in low level details and dynamics, and I have not even installed the SME Fd200 fluid damper kit on the arm. Same Headshell and Cartridge used int this comparasion.  I think is not the diifrence in the type of cable but just the fact that there is no joint or middle conector in the way of the signal.

@vinny55 Yes I,m sure he is. I just corresponded by email with him a couple of weeks ago about the serial number of the arm I bought from him in January. I would just pick up the phone and give him a call, I spoke with him twice over the phone and had good conversations and advice from him.I think he also has an ebay store. Good luck!