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These rumours. Are they more, less, or about as credible as the opinions of unknown guru?
Incorrect - Fremer prefers the rockport to the 30 but says the 30 is better in the bass. He also says the Balance is better than the 30 even in the bass
The SME 30/2 is perhaps the most tonally neutral turntable I've ever heard. Only the Rockport System III Sirius, which includes an integral tonearm, is in the same league, and it doesn't stand up to the SME's low-frequency extension and solidity.
In the review he clarified - the rockport is superior except in the bass but the sme is in the same league elsewhere. He now believes the caliburn to be best followed by the balance.
Can't we get Fremer to join pfm and give us his views first-hand?
Did either make a 12" arm at that time?
Keith.
The Caliburn with the 9" tonearm?
Which he thought sounded better when he put an 11" tone arm on it
Joking aside,Fremer has seemingly little or no idea what he's talking about half the time. Even he now takes rips from his review decks to try and identify differences down the line. He wasn't doing that 10 years ago. His aural memory is worthless.
It's also worth remembering that he preferred the Graham to the iV - not to the V which he never tried. He has AFAIK never had either the long wheelbase 30 in his system nor the V-12 arm.
His scribblings have been thoroughly discredited by others over the years. I would personally listen to the likes of Markus and Guy to name just two long before I took to reading Fremer's self serving column inches.
I had the pt plus sme v plus mc2000 before so thats pretty close and you would be familair with it
The blg adds much more weight and dynamics plus detail. Clarity is much higher.
Yes, just swapping decks. This evening.
I'm not really looking forward to posting anything about it, because of the reaction it will get from merlin and Jek. It's wearing/boring after a while, and was correctly predicted by me in an off-forum email to Joe Petrik about four weeks ago.