Chakster, I have an old SAEC WE308New arm, thoughts???
Looking for tonearm inspiration
I just bought a used SME 20/12 turntable that is about 15 years old. I also had a used
Dynavector DRT XV-1s rebuilt/are tipped. Odd as it may seem, there was no tonearm with the turntable. I have yet to identify what the phono stage, but listening so far suggest a Sutherland Loco (still open to alternatives). There must be many out there that have had experience with the SME 20/12 turntable and perhaps a few that have had experience with the SME/Dynavector combination. Can you suggest a tonearm that had some magic for you with either bit of gear? Wide range of music: Rock, Jazz, Female Vocal and a bit of Opera from time to time.
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@rpeluso Knife edge bearing system is not the best and SAEC geometry is strange. SAEC tonearms looks nice and the price is low for 308 but you can find better vintage tonearms. Regarding SAEC you can search an old thread on audiogon where everything explained in details. Saec geometry has been changed in latest (much better) models. |
For those of you interested in the specs of SME's bearings and who cannot google (arguably a very small community), here it is...for the SME IV tonearm: |
Dear @rpeluso : Your SAEC 308 has a quality build level second to none. It's characteristics does not changed over the vintage same model and due that's a removable headshell design you can try different headshells build material to test each one with your cartridge and decide which is a better match for that specific cartridge. In other side please check the brochure here and try to find out the black color SAEC stabilizer you can see in the second picture: https://www.vinylengine.com/library/saec/we-308.shtml Use either Löfgren A/Baerwald or Löfgren B tonearm/cartridge alignment set up. R. |
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