The Series IV precision pick-up arm owes much to the technology developed for the acclaimed Series V. Although presented at a lower price it retains the unique one-piece magnesium tone-arm, dual-lock base and other advanced features listed.
The Series IV is a worthy relative of 'the best pick-up arm in the world' with a sonic performance reflecting the care and attention to detail underlying its design and manufacture.
*Internal constrained layer damps minute residual vibration leaving the tone-arm acoustically inert. *Fine machined cartridge platform, enamel free to avoid interface resonance. *Stainless steel cross shaft, ground and thread ground. Carried in massive yoke on 10mm ABEC 3 ball races. Axis at record mean level to minimise warp-wow. *Unique assembly gives high rigidity and allows bearings to be critically adjusted before tone-arm is fitted. *Stainless steel vertical shaft, ground and thread ground, with integral 16mm diameter flange to couple shaft and yoke. *23mm diameter steel pillar, heat treated, ground and honed, carries two 17mm ABEC 7 ball races, widely spaced to resist tilt. *Anti-skate control operates through tension spring and filarnent. Dial corresponds with VTF and haspositive OFF position. *Lowering/raising control gives smooth positive action. Height of lift can be adjusted. *Dual-lock base provides movement control with high rigidity. *Tungsten-alloy balance weight carried on damped two-point suspension. Extra-low inertia design assists warp riding. *Underslung weight housing corrects centre of gravity and provides non-reflective tone-arm termination. Adjustment leadscrew journalled in twin ball races with lever clamping. *Swiveling damped output socket minimises vibration transmission in sub-chassis use. *Reference lines on tone-arm facilitate VTA setting. *Fine adjustment of horizontal tracking angle (HTA)
100 % Money Back Guarantee !As with all the products we sell. If your not 110% happy with the products & services you receive from us we will give you a 100% money back guarantee. On not only the price of the product but as well the cost of the shipping. That�s how confident we are in all the products we sell. Full Ten Year Warranty !When you purchase any of our new production SME products. Be it tonearms or turntables we give you a full ten year warranty. Bumper to bumper ! Short of leaving your turntable in the garden over the winter or using your tonearm as a pry bar to open a can of paint, we will cover what ever goes wrong with your newly purchased SME product. All we ask is that you retain your original receipt. We realize and understand that you have made an enormous investment in your analogue playback system & we want to reassure you that we will be there to stand behind it. The warranty we offer is unmatched and unrivaled in the analogue playback industry. We here at www.smetonearms.com have been rebuilding, rewiring & restoring SME arms for almost fifteen years now and SME England has been in business building tonearms & turntables for well over fifty years now & counting. I don't think either of us are going away ! *New design alignment protractor sets HTA with great accuracy.
Welcome to our hugely successful SME Trade In & Trade Up Program.
For more than a decade now our SME Trade In & Trade Up Program How it works is simple. You own an older SME arm and wish to move to a newer more advanced SME arm Not a problem.
Simply give us a call or send us an email & within a few short minutes We buy back your well loved SME arm or SME table and you get a brand new in the factory sealed box SME arm or SME table complete with our industry exclusive ten year warranty. Here are the trade in allowances we will give for your vintage SME tone arms. SME 3012 Series I – up to $1,500.00 We will also buy your older SME arms outright if you do not wish to trade your vintage SME arm in against a new replacement SME arm. Simply give us a call at 705-737-6773 or send us off an email through our contact section.    |
*Unique one-piece pressure die-cast tone-arm utilising the advantages of magnesium, replaces conventional fabricated construction.