I owned the original SAT the same arm Fremer owns on the same turntable the continuum caliburn, the primary control field coil arm pips it in my opinion. The arm I refer to is the cf1 at over 50k.
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mean while in the real world.
hmm well my current arm beat the best of the 80's british offerings by a country mile. mission 774,alphason hr100,zeta etc. it destroyed the lot.
audio technica's top tonearm taken to another league with the mods phonomac has done.
https://i.postimg.cc/gkQX1GdK/IMG-2744.jpg
Once again Nari you blithely refer to arms that most of us have not heard of, yet fail to show any images.
Is this the arm you refer to?
https://secureservercdn.net/160.153....8-1200x576.jpg
At least the price of this arm is a lot more reasonable.
My head (as a kid at 16 and saw the ads in the magazines) always said an SME V...
Had one, loved it...and as an Adult sold it.
Best I've heard by a Continent mile is Rega's new flagship.
Interestingly...the Engineering is "at least" as good as the V...it's actually better.
Every part is held together by tolerances, nothing more.
As a Mechanical Engineer and Vinyl guy I can say hand on heart that's quite the thing.
The only arms I would consider swapping my V for would be either the Audionote arm 3 or the Fidelity Research FR64S.
For the simple reason is synergy with my Voyd, same with any arm/deck combination.
Totally.
Synergy synergy synergy.
In the conext of an all Rega system the Engineering makes sense.
Been where you are my friend (and remember your Handle from WAY back in the Day)...the Hobby (to me) is about picking your point of Happiness and enjoying the Music....
Never hear a top whack Mac with a Goldmund Reference...
Happily, we don't need to!