Incognito sme tonearm wire
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- INCOGNITO SME TONEARM WIRE UPGRADE
- INCOGNITO SME TONEARM WIRE MODS
- INCOGNITO SME TONEARM WIRE SERIES
And just as the Rolls Royce engineers were gobsmacked back in WW2 when they saw their prized Merlin aircraft engine being perfectly assembled on Packard's Detroit production line by women, so SME must have looked at the Technics EPA series arms with a mixture of awe and trepidation. They had released the Series III in the late 1970s to some acclaim but, like Rolls Royce, SME is the kind of British engineering led company that still does everything in the old fashioned way, by sheer craftsmanship. SME, world renowned for their 3009 tonearms since the 1950s, were at this stage in the early 1980s being seriously challenged technologically on several fronts. Here the developments made by one of the most famous specialist tonearm manufactuers SME, are pretty enlightening. Here you need to be aware that, as with many technologies, a lot of important developments happened right at the point when the whole medium was becoming redundant in most (Japanese) eyes. So the next big question: is there anything to be gained by choosing a vintage design over a more recent one. Therefore it makes perfect sense today to replace the tonearm on the Tecnics SL1200 with a more modern design.
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So you have to read these reviews in the light of the fact that in the UK at the time you would be spending double or triple the price of the home grown favourite spinner, the LP12 for the Technics.Īlthough most people these days perhaps think of a turntable as the whole device which plays the records, back in the day a turntable could also be purchased as a separate motorboard, plinth and tonearm.Īpart from the models mentioned above Tehnics also offered the SL1200 as the SL120 without tonearm, usually fitted with an SME3009 II arm, These were offered to match Technics top of the range series of motorboards the SP10/15/25 which were very expensive indeed back in the late '70s when a Linn Sondek LP12 for example cost 250UKP and a Rega P3 80UKP. The later MKII model tonearm which is the one found on the SL1200MKII and SL1700MKII in the review above, is a more medium mass at 12-13g and shares a closer family resemblence, at least visually with the Technics EPA-100/250/500 high end tonearms. This model I think has a slightly higher 15-16g mass which can of course be varied somewhat by changing the headshell. The original SL1300-1900 have a higher mass arm which can easily be visually distinguished from the later MKII series ( again all using the same model arm ) by the section resembling a drum which holds the bearings over the arms pivot point, where it's attached to the deck. But here is a very close relative the SL1700 MkII from 1980.Īll the SL**00 series aside from the SL1000, SL1100 and SL1200 Mk I seem to share two basic tonearm designs. So to help to throw some light on the issues involved here are some old Hi-Fi Choice reviews I dug up from the twilight of the analogue era.įirst off I couldn't find a review of the actual SL1200 MkII ( the cheapest most commonly available version still sold today).
INCOGNITO SME TONEARM WIRE UPGRADE
The upgrade prices are not that disimilar but the approaches are very different with KABUSA advocating silicon damping and a tweaked concorde style cart compared to OL's approach of dumping the stock arm altogther in favour of a Rega derived replacement.
INCOGNITO SME TONEARM WIRE MODS
To get the best out of it there are many aftermarket mods from the likes of KABUSA and Origin Live which focus on the tonearm, arguably the single most important upgrade you can make to this 'table. So for anyone interested in direct drives or just getting into vinyl it's a lot of deck at a bargain price.
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The Technics SL1200 is these days being re-appraised by audiophiles as a seriously capable turntable not just a workhorse for DJs.