Tone arm plug in RCA cable?

Well SME have a history of producing Knife Edge Bearing Designs, they probably sold in 10’s of 1000’s and guess what, all were most likely really ’ENJOYED’ by their owners, and I will even go out on a limb and suggest a large selection of individuals still ’ENJOY’ them today as being equipment used for sound reproduction.

OK

Well due that your analog knowledge level is so low for you " sound smart " but it's the other way around because no one audiophile with good knowledge level will choose SAEC tonearm with that " terrible " double knife bearing design, other than unipivots the worst tonearm bearing to mount any cartridge. I owned the 8000, 506 and 407 models that were the top in the SAEC line.

Well I choose it in ~84, as that was when the TT was bought and set up. So it is not like I found one on the side of the road, and thought “that’ll do”.
It was more at the time the dealer said, “that’ll do”.

If I knew what to listen for, and when the knife-edge bearing would be making chattering noises, then maybe I would be able to hear the flaw. But it seems to sound pretty good. I do have a test record coming in the mail, so I’ll see what it reveals. That gives me some time, as the whole bevy of arms is a lot to go through.

Other than effective mass, and what cartridges can work… there is also what fits on the TT… and from that list is I suppose tracking error and maybe rumble/chatter as objective things.
But what subjective things should be evident in a cheap old SAEC arm (like mine) that I should be listening for?

@holmz  : OK? really. 

Holmz when SME took in count its mistake with the knife bearing switched at once for the great SME V till today. Jelco was in the rigth " road " and now is in the knife bearing tonearm worst mistake. To each his own.

R.

There are individuals on forums that are afflicted with such obsessional dispositions, their need to enforce their fantasies about designs and products are at risk of becoming a very misguided garble and will ultimately end up with an individual who has sought a guidance receiving mis-information.

The Link will give a better description on how SME were looking at their designs for their Tonearm Models, along with how it received as a product throughout the world. That is a better overview, than the very obscured and narrow focused view of your other source of information. 

As a summary, of the Link, I do not see anywhere within it that makes the SME look like a design as corrective measure to a mistake to swept under the carpet.

More like they revered the design and continued with it comfortably into the New Millennium.

Under the present guidance you are receiving from the terminally obsessed type of forum contributor, it will not be long, especially once they have made their new discovery, that they will be telling forum members the SME V is mistake to be abandoned, as the Wand is inferior and is now superseded, as SME have chose to use a secret material that is a compound of plastics/resins to produce a composite wand.

https://www.tonepublications.com/old-school/sme-3009-tonearm/#:~:text=Founded%20in%201946%20by%20Robertson,in%20the%20autumn%20of%201958.

In the last “option 3” example:

1. Does one use a specific type of wire? (Like a specific thin silver?)
2. Which company peddles the DIN plugs ?

This is the link:

decibelhifi.com.au

They should be able to answer your questions.

This is the link:

decibelhifi.com.au

They should be able to answer your questions

Yeah I did see that right before this:

SAEC are unique in using the same wire type  in a commercial product, and it can be found used in their $13000 Tonearm Model. 

@holmz  : OK? really. 

Holmz when SME took in count its mistake with the knife bearing switched at once for the great SME V till today. Jelco was in the rigth " road " and now is in the knife bearing tonearm worst mistake. To each his own

Yeah really.

I am not sure how many times I can ask what is wrong with the SAEC in terms of how a knife edge affects the sound.

I know you think it is the worse (or next to unipivot), but I do not appreciate what that means in terms of the way it sounds, or how I could tell other than reading that it sucks..