SME is selling tonearms again!


SME Classic Series M2 Tonearms Available

 

 

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SME Classic Series M2 Tonearms Available

SME announces the made to order Classic Series M2 tonearms in 9- and 12-inch varieties, straight or J-shaped.

The shock news that SME was leaving the separate tonearm business back in 2019 sent ripples through the audiophile world. However, the respected British brand has today announced the release of the Classic Series M2 range.

SME Classic Series M2 Tonearm

SME tells us that “the introduction of the new VA tonearm compliments the magnesium range of tonearms fitted to SME turntables, which provides an opportunity for the highly credible M2 Series to be assigned to a Classic Range now available for individual retail sales. “

The Classic M2 Series is a class-leading tonearm famous for its precision instrument quality and ultimate sonic performance and is available in 9-inch and 12-inch versions in straight and ’J’ shaped tubes; the latter is denoted by the R in its name.

SME Classic Series M2 Tonearm

The M2-9 is the standard arm having a pivot-stylus dimension of 233.2 mm (9.18-inches) and the M2-12 has a pivot-stylus dimension of 308.8 mm (12.16-inches).

The SME Classic Series M2 is made to order and starts at an RRP of £2,380 for the M2-9, with the M2-12 costing £2,628.00. The M2-9R is priced at £3,108.00, and the 12-inch version costs £3,348.00. All prices include VAT.

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@lohanimal : I agree! The sky-high prices for some of these TTs, arms and cartridges is exorbitant! Tech Das Air Force 1 ($110K) and SAT arm ($30K) plus a $10K Clearaudio Goldfinger cartridge! Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks. "That's where the money is!" Today's High End companies are catering to the millionaires because "That's where the money is!"

The SME M2-9R at £3108 is indeed way too costly for the middle class enthusiast! I'd rather spend $1K on a good condition original 3009 - which price is again high - I bought a brand new 3009 for $175 back in 1976! 

@jasonbourne52 price adjustment wise audio has gone up in price exponentially. The SAT turntable I think is even less justifiable than the arm because it is a re-plinthed Technics - sorry if anyone disagrees - but it is.

I don’t have such a problem with the tech-das oddly - if I was spending 30k on an arm it would be the derrenville parallel tracker.

As I have said some things are expensive and justifiably so - the Rockport Sirius - Mares/Connoisseur amps. 
I think that much of the cable industry has a lot to blame IMHO.

I wonder if SME continue to service items past and present still?

I sold a mint 3012 mk 1 about 35 years ago for £80 to a Japanese, having replaced my home brewed turntable with a Linn.

Fool I was for not being able to predict the future

 

The CD will die before vinyl.  Some say this is strange or even perverse.  But it is perfectly well explicable.  As a digital medium it offers no more than downloads, streams, rips and all the rest.  But it costs about 20x more on average.  No brainer.

 

Non fungible tokens are a very new development.  I wonder if performers could sell their music for more than they are getting for downloads and streams?  They could make small changes in the performance by digital means that would make each download unique and identifiable by a reference code and logged into a bitchain.  They would sell each one as an NFT with all the rights attaching.

Crazy Eddie prices--insane! I paid $1,800 for my M2-12R when it first came out. Excellent arm but not at today's $4,100.