Dover you need some pi**s, really. I don’t sell any of the arms I have mentioned, but that’s what I use myself. I’m on the forum to read about affordable and great vintage hi-fi gear, but most of the contributors lost their interest to post about it (even Nandric lost his interest to post on audiogon).
I’m not interested to read about belt drive toys or some overpriced modern high-end at all, all the information about modern high-end available from professional reviews. If you can post something interesting about analog gear I have mentioned plz post, but you are nothing but a retired dealer (and you said it yourself many times). So ?
I will “promote” great analog gear as long as I wish too, hope it will help people (audio enthusiasts) to find an alternative to stuff heavily promoted by the industry today.
If you don’t own SP-10R you probably forgot that 30 years ago when you briefly tried SP-10 mk2 or mk3 it was hard to mount any ‘9 inch tonearm near the metal chassis of this drive without moving the arm too much forward. Steve Dobbins (plinth maker and dealer) told me the same, he was a dealer of Reed in USA for some time. I post the images of my SP10mk2 with many tonearms, I’m wondering how many tonearms did you try on SP-10mk2 or mk3 and when? Any owner of SP-10R (or older models) will tell you why Technics EPA-100 is ‘10.5 inch, a ‘12 inch arm is even better for this square chassis. I’ve been using SP-10 mk2 with many tonearms! A short arm is aesthetically the worst choice for SP-10R even if technically long arm may be not better than short arm, the problem is the size of the Technics chassis , not the size of tonearm.
Regarding SME of any king I already posted my opinion, really not my kind of tonearms (no matter what model).
Interesting that Miyajima designer recommended vintage SAEC tonearms for his cartridges! SAEC was Japanese answer to British SME.
Lewis, all my 78rpm are 10 inch.