New Transrotor TRA9 tonearm coming soon

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. 
 

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.

@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. 

@mijostyn 

I tend to agree with that logic with regards to SME perhaps restarting their tonearm business. One can hope:) The vinyl resurgence is tremendous and manufacturers who are well rounded will be/ are able to capitalize on customer demand for their products. 

I am not sure what the sales volume of SMEs turntables is, but, they may be just satisfied with selling turntables only. Too bad we can’t get anyone from the factory or leadership to give some insight on where SME is going with the business.