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SME V Tonearm on eBay Hong Kong Sellers are FAKE!!!

These scumbags have been selling these for a while now. It comes from multiple accounts originating out of Hong Kong. They sell on average two SME V tonearms a month, at $1400-$2200, auction style. Fellow audiophiles, please stop buying these. They are 100% fake. They are cheap hideous copies.

Report and do not buy from sellers: mandy-930 and makiyo2008
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dover
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@chakster 
The B60 replica in the you tube video is garbage.
Compared to the original I have, the motion up and down of the pillar housing appears to be rattly, loose and wobbly. There is no way mine moves up and down that fast, clearly the tolerances in the replica are much looser than the original. You can see the pillar moving sideways in the last motion.  

dover
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The biggest problem, besides from the fact that it’s a fake/replica/made of discarded original parts, is that the fit of the arm rest on the bearing column is subpar, and the arm rest will come loose, twist and pinch off the anti skate spring, rendering the tonearm useless. 

In other words you could have bought a Rega RB330 tonearm for under $700 and saved yourself a lot of time and money - and got better sound.

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