What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V?

Mijo, you are entitled to your guess. Your guess may be as good as mine, except I own and have used the BMC, and you own the Seta. The two units may have differences in both input impedance and current gain. Dunno. I’m only extrapolating from my prior experience, as noted. Input Z of the BMC is said to be <3 ohms. Do you have those data for the Seta? The outcome is not solely dependent upon the internal R of the cartridge, given two cartridges of exactly equal V output.

Jelco manufactured my Sumiko MMT.

Jelco manufactured many of the arms of other very well known and very highly regarded brands.

Jelco started producing arms under their their own name a few years back.

COVID19 knocked them out of business, if you find a Jelco arm it would be worth it.

At the end of last week I ordered cabling for the BMC pre-amp. I have a few sets of extra Argentum cabling that are my spares, and it sounds nice on some copper RCA ones, while a silver wire set of XLR cables were more energetic on the top end. My preference will be for XLR so I ordered some Wireworld  Silver Eclipse 8 XLR interconnects. I also ordered some Micro Silver Eclipse 8 tone arm cables with XLR terminations in case I want to run the SME or the Dynavector tonearms to the BMC. Should arrive early next week. 

Rock and roll! Let us know how it sounds.

Dear @neonnigth : I can read in the forum that you still are alittle distressed by the MC2000 tonearm to match it.

You own the SME V with a good EM ( 10gr. ) for that cartridge and can buy a Reed 3P 9.5" teak arm wand that comes with lower EM ( 8gr. ) than the V and will mate well too.

The VIV for that very high compliance is a mistake as is the 505 that I owned but at the end is your $$$$$ and your sound MUSIC listening targets.

R.