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| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @mijostyn Yes that is the question, are we talking the 2.0 or the 3.3? The 2.0 is going to be roughly the same price as the B.M.C. MCCI Signature ULN that is available to me. The topology of the Signature ULN appears to be quite sophisticated. ... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @lewm I hear what you are saying, I just have an internal quirk about modifying expensive equipment. My own internal firewall, I hate to do it. Yes its just a set of terminations...what can I say? All I know is this Verismo is one of the finest ... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? As an update after resetting the cartridge on the SOTA I have decided to stick with the SME V and Proteus on this table. However, I have the Ortofon Verismo I am receiving back from VAS. Actually, that showed up yesterday, and last night I insta... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @o holter I remember looking at the Amari turntables at one time, I believe they are the OEM builder for Hanss. I thought about their multi level tables, but did not pull the trigger. Instead on Audiogon I found a dealer sellign a demo Scheu A... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? Curious I noticed the absence of @nandric Has he been active lately? | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? After reading through the thread, @mijostyn post struck a nerve with me. Truth be told I overlooked an important point. As a bit of history, I should say I am a hobbyist of modest means, and while I appreciate audio gear, I must be creative and op... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? Earlier in the thread someone mentioned that the SME V can sound constrained, and that is a good description I hear with the Transfiguration Audio Proteus. Everything sounds on track in terms of tonal balance, it tracks well, and at the macro leve... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? Perhaps this is a good moment to share a bit of history of how I got here. Back in the late 1990s I decided to do vinyl again, and had good results with an unsuspended high mass table, an early Teres Audio with Eminent Technology II arm. I drifted... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @mijostyn The SOTA is 2 years old, it's the current generation Eclipse with vacuum hold down. Yes the V is lighter in mass than it's visual appearance suggests, believe it's 9.5 grams. As I recall the V used a silver wiring. I have a ZYX 4D... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @pindac What are you talking about? I wrote nothing about this "theory". You people created it all on your own. The original question is what does it take to surpass a SME V? My turntable is a SOTA Cosmos Eclipse. So it's a floating subc... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @senza Yeah the thread is pretty well useless. I don't see much value in it either. | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @rauliruegas Well I have images of a cantilever with epoxy only on the tip and pictured of a clean cantilever devoid of epoxy. Cantilever is not fractured. The cantilever is confirmed as synthetic diamond. There is plenty of data to confirm t... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? I haven’t really made any choices. I had an unexpected opportunity come my way at the end of December. A person bought a new Ortofon Verismo and at the twenty hour mark decided to dust the table and ended up removing the diamond from the cantileve... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? I own a SME V on a SOTA Cosmos. Images sent to Alfred point it to being a first generation arm. The question becomes do I sell it and replace it, or keep it as is. I dont think it makes much sense to spend money on a rebuild of it. But that is jus... | |
| High Performance Low Mass Tone Arm Suggestions Needed Before I do anything I decided to see if my Dynavector arm could accommodate the second MC2000 I have that has been retipped. The OEM will play on the arm with a Supex SL2 headshell which is 7.2 grams. I just ordered a Denon PCL5 headshell which w... |