These days it is no longer good enough to trade on an old well known brand name. You have to make exceptional products. Great design, great build quality and great performance.
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SME Model 6
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These days it is no longer good enough to trade on an old well known brand name. You have to make exceptional products. Great design, great build quality and great performance.
Darren L
Egalitarian
It's a damn shame, ARA will be turning over in his grave, from a company whose audio division primarily produced quality tonearms for 60 years it beggars belief that the new owners made this decision.
MikeMA
pfm Member
My otherwise unremarkable kitchen sink is made of phenolic resin.
Rockmeister
pfm Member
Potential SME 6 buyers...DO NOT WIKIPEDEA SEARCH 'PHONELIC RESIN'.
Ok you will anyway now so I'll save you the time.
'Another use of phenolic resins is the making of Duroplast, used in the Trabant automobiles'.
hahahahaha. Oh dear. I mean. it's fine stuff and probably excellent as a material for SME's purpose, but this association, you don't need, although, it is poss that the only bits of a Trabant to survive were the PR bits.
trabby by John Dutfield, on Flickr
Ok you will anyway now so I'll save you the time.
'Another use of phenolic resins is the making of Duroplast, used in the Trabant automobiles'.
hahahahaha. Oh dear. I mean. it's fine stuff and probably excellent as a material for SME's purpose, but this association, you don't need, although, it is poss that the only bits of a Trabant to survive were the PR bits.
trabby by John Dutfield, on Flickr
Rockmeister
pfm Member
Rockmeister
pfm Member
Hmmmm. a touch of the Tr Herald there...never owned one of either, but did have a TR6 for a few months. NOT a car to commute in.
Anyway back on track, I can see what SME intend and conclude that their Market research team avoided all HiFi websites. Otherwise it will certainly sound quite fine, and there must be plenty of people to whom a name means more than good design, so bon chance to them. If this helps the 'proper' ones stay in production ten that's fine by me.
Anyway back on track, I can see what SME intend and conclude that their Market research team avoided all HiFi websites. Otherwise it will certainly sound quite fine, and there must be plenty of people to whom a name means more than good design, so bon chance to them. If this helps the 'proper' ones stay in production ten that's fine by me.
Amber Audio
This is the Day
Still nowt on their website product or news pages which just seems strange. I don’t do social media usual suspects so no idea if they are pushing on FB or Insta.
Agreed
Beobloke
pfm Member
I like this idea very much. I hope SME do, too.
Craig B
Re:trophile
I do think it unfortunate that the overall shape resembles a cheap USB deck, however, as expected, it does appear very well engineered in those closeup pics.
WRT tonearm adjustment, those acorn nuts, and the angle of the line between them, would suggest there to exist a bit of adjustment possibility via short slots and an oval hole within the round metal mounting plate. With such short slots, one would hope that the line of travel is biased toward the apex of the inner null.
WRT tonearm adjustment, those acorn nuts, and the angle of the line between them, would suggest there to exist a bit of adjustment possibility via short slots and an oval hole within the round metal mounting plate. With such short slots, one would hope that the line of travel is biased toward the apex of the inner null.
Tarzan
pfm Member
If l was SME employee now l would be s-------g bricks at the moment their business model of late is ridiculous.
2020 is a little different!
