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    Hi all,

    I have just got round to fitting a SME 3009 on my Thorens, all looked good until i realised that it didn't fit within my plinth and requires more space at the bottom...



    Is there any solution to this other than cutting a hole in the baseboard and adding extra long feet?

    Thanks
    Phil

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    Leave the base off, it'll sound better that way. Yes, use taller feet and investigate side entry cables.
    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

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    Thanks, Geoff. Does anyone know where i would be able to get a right angled/side entry connector cable?

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    Get a new plinth the original Thorens plinths have always been the weak part or the TT, get a new heavier plinth and baseboard


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    I already have a new plinth, but it is the same height as the original.

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    you can alter the sme for rca's that go in sideways. that will solve it too.. usually kits on the bay
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    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    SME developed the side-entry version for the Belling & Lee 5-way connector in the '70, so their arms would fit in the shallow plinths of the Thorens 125, 150 and 160 TTs as well as those of the ERA Mk.6 turntable. The SME arms with this modification are designated "/SE".

    I would replace the vertical entry Belling & Lee socket with side entry RCA phono sockets. Conversion kits are readily available, and it would give you the option to try different cables.
    Barry

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    Ah - I see Grant has just referenced a suitable coversion kit.
    Barry

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    The new plinth should be made deeper out of better timber with a much denser base board,like 12mm MDF. that’s the point in getting a new plinth made.
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