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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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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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Dear @fsellet : I owned the IV and latter on changed for the V where the bearing balls are ABEC 9 and performs better for its additional facilities.

R.
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@mijostyn : "  Plus I'm hoping to get a deal on one of his amps some day: "

a BS of design.

R.
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Dear @rpeluso : Here that stabilizer. Improves your tonearm quality level performance:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/SAEC-AS-500E-Tonearm-Arm-Stabilizer/401993600721?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20180816085401%26meid%3D01bb2998364b435484e697d7de6950df%26pid%3D100970%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dnone%26sd%3D401993600721%26itm%3D401993600721%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057%26brand%3DSAEC&_trksid=p2380057.c100970.m5481&_trkparms=pageci%3A46e617f1-d8c6-11ea-a9b9-74dbd1808644%7Cparentrq%3Ac9a177e41730a9cca7ebff99ffffcd31%7Ciid%3A1


Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.
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Dear @rpeluso : These are the correct alignments parameters you need to make to set up the 308/cartridge ( either: Löfgren A or B. ):

  https://www.vinylengine.com/tonearm_alignment_calculator_pro.php?arm1=Arm+1&l1=el&a1lv=240&a1=la&oh1v=&oa1v=&arm2=Lofgren+A&l2=el&a2lv=240&a2=la&oh2v=&oa2v=&arm3=Lofgren+B&l3=el&a3lv=240&a3=lb&oh3v=&oa3v=&arm4=Stevenson&l4=el&a4lv=240&a4=st&oh4v=&oa4v=&rs=12&rsv=&og=iec1&ogv=&ig=jis&igv=&cal=y&submit=calculate

Forgeret about the mounting parameters SAEC has, is the worst alignment for any cartridge.
So you need to mount the 308 as it was the first time but with either of those parameters in that link.

R.
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