#SME-HEADSHELL

[audio-luddite]

Sometimes I despair.

So much noise. Not just audible, but information noise. Random low quality crap is the average. Where is the good stuff?

I was cruising YouTube as that is how I am following the Tour de France this year. After the day finished I randomly put in a search item.

Turntables.

I kid you not I stopped counting at 30 clips of "The 10 best (or 5 best) turntables". All from different experts. Some were sorted by cost. 10 best under $2000, or under $500. Still a tsunami of opinion. Yet very little agreement or correlation or even good advice. When a I see a unit ranked well because it has a USB output, here comes the despair.

I imagine that some of these guys may actually know something. Take that to mean most know Sweet F*** All. The average is pulled way down. I may go Meta OCD and do a review of reviews. Which ones are worth looking at.

My turntable is really good (in my opinion) as it is pretty quiet and very steady. Is it high end? Yes because my system is high end. Is it audiophile grade? Yes because I consider myself an audiophile. I have absolutely no desire to upgrade it. It is mostly automatic as it can start a record with a push of a button if I want. All I must do is put the record on it and select the speed. And frankly my hand is a bit too shaky from time to time. Fully manual aint in my future.

Is it the best? I suspect there are a few better based on my needs and there is at least one prettier (Beogram 4000 series). Looks count too you know.

I made the mistake of clicking on one of those clips and this guy was all about belt drive turntables. Specifically he was calling out another site, or was it a printed magazine, that claimed belt drives actually remove surface noise from LPs. Yes they do not make things quieter he was correctly calling out Bullshit.

Belt drives are common as they are the easiest to build. Machine a pulley and buy a motor and you got it. There are many excellent belt drive turntables. Idler drives were popular for old broadcast stations. Very reliable and only one part to wear out that can be replaced. Also gobs of torque to spin up the disk. Direct drives are the hardest to engineer so only big companies do that.

I find it stupid that people slag on one type over the other as they can all work very well. I dislike that so many people go after direct drive for effects that I have never heard. I like to point out that the Lathes that cut the lacquers are direct drive. The Neumans even have a flex coupler to isolate vibration from the motor to the deck. I swear I think I have an LP or two that actually has lathe noise on it.

The main thing about turntables is weight. If the platter is heavy it is good. After that I like removable head shells for swapping cartridges. Those would be standard headshells like SME and Technics type. Dual and Thorens have proprietary designs that are removable, but I do not like the design. And I LOVE linear tangential tracking. If you don't have that you are compromised.

If you want a turntable look in ads for old ones. They can last for decades. (I know) They are also easy to fix for most brands and some still have factory support for 40 years.

[bigjoe11]

SME 60 record player $71,900 Review

https://www.stereophile.com/content/sme-60-record-player Using my Model 30/2 turntable and Series V tonearm as a benchmark, I was able to directly compare the Model 60 with the Series VA arm with my Model 30/2 with the Series V arm. SME’s fixed headshell-mounting holes made it possible to align my test cartridges identically in both arms then move the cartridges back and forth between them…

[tuco66]

Transrotor Classic with special made gold plated SME headshell

[thehifiman]

SME Series M2 9" Tonearm RRP: £1,645 Our Price: £990 Orignal box, packaging and accessories Like new condition Only 18 Months Old. The Series M2 embraces three models the M2-9, M2-10 and M2-12 offering pivot-stylus dimensions covering virtually all turntable requirements. These arms are offered at reasonable cost, meticulous build quality with all the most important features including lightweight stainless steel tonearm, detachable magnesium headshell with azimuth adjustment, tungsten balance weight, superb quality ball race bearings etc., and a level of stiffness and rigidity to suit all types of cartr... https://www.instagram.com/p/CAzDlgdJR_w/?igshid=197p3n1pomrfg

[laumkemiesfi]

Tonearm 12 long Ortofon AB- 309 banana for SPU-G and SME type Headshells ( 58 Bids ) #Tonearm #long https://ebay.to/32toaJ9

[kualyuvaitha]

Tonearm 12 long Ortofon AB- 309 banana for SPU-G and SME type Headshells ( 56 Bids ) #Tonearm #long https://ift.tt/3a2NZ5k

[audiokrafter]

Copper-bronze Audio MusiKraft prototype cartridge on Orsonic headshell. SME 3012 tonearm, custom bronze pod and Garrard 401 on Ford GT Blue custom Plinth. #musikraftshell #musikraftcartridge #audiomusikraft #musikraftprototype #denondl103 #dl103 #phonocartridge #audiocartridge #audiophile #hiendaudio #vinylporn #vinyljunk #vinyl #turntable #denoncartridge #hificartridge #audiomusikraft #bronze #copper #garrard #garrard401 #fordgtblue (à Audio MusiKraft)

[saoncella]

l'ascolto di un disco in Vinile parte dalla fonte...dato per scontato che il disco sia inciso bene con una dinamica sui 40-50db... Secondo questa premessa quindi la prima fonte del suono è la Testina, che è formata da due elementi specifici: testina (cartridge) puntina-stilo (stylus) naturalmente la seconda dev'essere di buona qualità per esprimere le potenzialità della prima. Non c'è niente di meglio per capire il suono e il vinile in particolare se non si provi ad ascoltare il medesimo brano con Testine diverse, per coglierne le sfumature di ognuna. Qui ne trovate 8, con Headshell con attacco per Micro-Seiki o con Headshell Universal con attacco SME. Iniziando dalla Audio-Tecnica, per passare 680EE, via sulla AKG P8E, e svoltare sulla 680EV3, planare sulla M104E e chiudere con la 680MkII in bellezza... Alla prossima puntata ne scopriremo altre, tra cui le varie Shure High Quality, le ADC, le Empire, le CEC, le Bang & Olufsen, Elac...ecc e presto ve le faremo ascoltare tutte in diretta registrate in Hi-Fi con la scheda audio giusta... Buon ascolto... 🎶 🎶 🎶 (presso La Casetta del Vinile) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1g1UALogl7/?igshid=18idkugmbuxzu

[thehifiman]

SME 309 Tonearm Our EX Dem SME 309 after 15 years sadly we are no longer SME dealers due to unreasonable requests from there new distributors. This is the latest spec 309 with 2 headshells making it outstanding Value @ £1100 PX welcome Demo welcome Currently fitted to our model 10 with Sumiko evo 3 cart Original packing included with arm This can be fitted to your turntable and setup to our usual high standards if required we will also soon be selling our EX Dem SME V £2500. From The Missing Link on HiFi Forsale https://www.instagram.com/p/B5Rzx_WpRBB/?igshid=1ev1ybvt5oxih

[audiokrafter]

Copper-bronze Audio MusiKraft prototype cartridge on Orsonic headshell. SME 3012 tonearm, custom bronze pod and Garrard 401 on Ford GT Blue custom Plinth. #musikraftshell #musikraftcartridge #audiomusikraft #musikraftprototype #denondl103 #dl103 #phonocartridge #audiocartridge #audiophile #hiendaudio #vinylporn #vinyljunk #vinyl #turntable #denoncartridge #hificartridge #audiomusikraft #bronze #copper #garrard #garrard401 #fordgtblue #ultrafi (à Audio MusiKraft)

[thehifiman]

SME Series IV Arm + Detach Headshell Black RRP: £4,000 Our Price: £1,990 Original box, packaging and all accessories Factory Manual. Factory Configured : Series IV Arm + Detachable Headshell + Series V Fluid Damper + Series V Bearings The Series IV precision tonearm owes much to the technology developed for the acclaimed Series V. Although presented at a lower price it retains the unique magnesium tonearm, dual... from audio emotion on HiFi Forsale https://www.instagram.com/p/B4okw_GJkqf/?igshid=1swnh2lr7ypx9

[thehifiman]

SME Series IV Arm + Detach Headshell Black RRP: £4,000 Our Price: £1,990 Original box, packaging and all accessories Factory Manual. Factory Configured : Series IV Arm + Detachable Headshell + Series V Fluid Damper + Series V Bearings The Series IV precision tonearm owes much to the technology developed for the acclaimed Series V. Although presented at a lower price it retains the unique magnesium tonearm, dual... from audio emotion on HiFi Forsale https://www.instagram.com/p/B4jgCSKp-FO/?igshid=1883sewhwfl29

[thehifiman]

SME Series IV Arm + Detach Headshell Black RRP: £4,000 Our Price: £1,990 Original box, packaging and all accessories Factory Manual. Factory Configured : Series IV Arm + Detachable Headshell + Series V Fluid Damper + Series V Bearings The Series IV precision tonearm owes much to the technology developed for the acclaimed Series V. Although presented at a lower price it retains the unique magnesium tonearm, dual... from audio emotion on HiFi Forsale https://www.instagram.com/p/B4cQFICp0q2/?igshid=v4dyklrsnf8v