SME 3009s are crazy money. I must sell my spare ones, I got them in the 90s on various decks for buttons.It’s not that one. Are the arms really worth that much these days?
The Mk6 isn't a bad little turntable 10 inch platter like a certain British kit but to my mind rather more professionally built - IIRC a 48pole motor that didn't need a flick to get it started in the right direction - the plinth was pressed steel - beware the electrics inside IIRC rather crude and the least professional part of it.
Are the arms really worth that much these days?
Mk6?
SME 3009s are crazy money. I got them in the 90s on various decks for buttons.
I owned one of these tables back in the '70s, and as with the one pictured in the ad linked above, mine had a full size platter.
It was a rather crude affair all over, if ERA spent any money on it at all it was on the bearing. The "suspension" was four strips of double-stick foam weather stripping.
The sub chassis / plinth on the Era Mk6 was / is a pressed steel affair, I never once saw any other Mks of any other version Era.
Might be a good buy if this valuation of the turntable is correct.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/28453615...d=link&campid=5338728743&toolid=20001&mkevt=1
It is a really bizarre design, there are a few pictures here (Liquid Audio). I’ve a lot of respect for JC Verdier, I’m listening to one of his preamps now and it is a lovely sounding thing, solidly made and easily serviceable, but unless I’m missing something obvious that is not a good turntable design! Thin pressed steel, no suspension, the motor and bearing mounted on the bottom sheet, the armboard on the top sheet. It looks like an inherently resonant structure. I don’t get it. A TD-150 is a flimsy cost-cut thing, but the design logic negates this as the bits that need to work as a non-resonant structure largely do so, and the bits that don’t are isolated by the subchassis. The Era bearing sounds like it might be interesting though.
Early Ortofon arms are cult items, which one did you have?