SME stopped to sell their arms independantly from their tables recently and I had the chance to acquire an unboxed SME V-12 after the announcemnt. I was quite happy since I always wanted to have one in my system.
The SME V-12 has a lot of good traits to make it a classical arm. It has a bit un-conventional way to adjust its HTA by moving the whole arm base back and forth to align itself to the supplied template. It basically is different from the way to align an arm nowadays. Since the screw holes are fixed (not slotted), the effectively length basically depends on the cart design, the length of the contilver and also the position of the contilever. It is not 308.8mm depending on the specification of the cart. When moving the base, the P2S makes not sense too since it keeps changing.
I usually use the supplied template, which provides an easy, even dummy way to decide the HTA. When I tried to use the Wally Tractor and the Dr. Feickert tractor to align the V-12 with my Lyra Atlas, I found it almost impossible to align to the 2 Baerwald null points, neither the Loefgren null points. I can make it reasonably well aligned to the null points by moving the base outward, thus changing also the P2S, but the sound becames supressed and distorted somehow.
I'd like to get people's opinion of how you align your V-12 on different carts? Any tips and ideas are welcome.
The SME V-12 has a lot of good traits to make it a classical arm. It has a bit un-conventional way to adjust its HTA by moving the whole arm base back and forth to align itself to the supplied template. It basically is different from the way to align an arm nowadays. Since the screw holes are fixed (not slotted), the effectively length basically depends on the cart design, the length of the contilver and also the position of the contilever. It is not 308.8mm depending on the specification of the cart. When moving the base, the P2S makes not sense too since it keeps changing.
I usually use the supplied template, which provides an easy, even dummy way to decide the HTA. When I tried to use the Wally Tractor and the Dr. Feickert tractor to align the V-12 with my Lyra Atlas, I found it almost impossible to align to the 2 Baerwald null points, neither the Loefgren null points. I can make it reasonably well aligned to the null points by moving the base outward, thus changing also the P2S, but the sound becames supressed and distorted somehow.
I'd like to get people's opinion of how you align your V-12 on different carts? Any tips and ideas are welcome.
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