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New Transrotor TRA9 tonearm coming soon

I ordered the new Transrotor TRA9 tonearm. I hope it will be here in the next 30 days. I am mounting it on my Transrotor Apollon TMD turntable. I currently have two SME V arms. Also, I am very close to ordering the Air Tight Opus 1 soon.
I have a Hyperion mounted on arm and a swap between a Benz Ruby Z, Benz LPS, and Soundsmith Sussaro MKIi on the other arm when the mood suits me.

Can’t wait to post impressions,

Transrotor TRA9 tonearm

 

audioquest4life
cleeds
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audioquest4life
Too bad SME is no longer in the individual tonearm market. Perhaps, they wanted to reign in tonearm sales to increase SME turntable sales ...

It looks as though that has changed. If you check the latest Music Direct catalog (p. 22), there's a listing for  Series V at $6,295 and the 309 is listed at $3,495.

audioquest4life OP
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Hmmm, that’s interesting. I have the latest catalog but did not look at the tonearm section. I already own two SME Vs, but this would be good news for anyone wanting to purchase a new in box SME. I did a quick search on the Music Direct web site and found no SME arms, only turntables. 
 

lewm
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Possibly MD didn’t have time in the lead up to publication to delete the SME V from their catalog. The SME announcement was fairly recent.

cleeds
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lewm

 

Possibly MD didn’t have time in the lead up to publication to delete the SME V from their catalog. The SME announcement was fairly recent.

SME stopped selling its arms separately more than three years ago.

see: SME has stopped selling tonearms and will exit the OEM business with immediate effect.

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mijostyn
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@lewm , It is either because they have not edited their catalog yet or perhaps they had a few leftovers.

SME is most definitely out of the tonearm market, for now at least. I am betting they will reverse that in the future. Their tables have too much competition in the US market. They are too expensive here. But they did sell an awful lot of arms. That is a lot of money to loose. I have not heard of anyone buying one of their tables just to get the arm. 

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