BRAND: SME

SERIES: Series V
TYPE: Tonearm

SME engineers, recognising the potential of the latest complementary equipment, accepted the challenge to design and build a pick-up arm which unlike others in existence would make no detectable sound contribution of its own.

OVERVIEW

The work took almost four years and the measure of its success is the acceptance of the Series V precision pick-up arm by technical experts and users as one of the world’s truly great audio products. Series V sound has an almost startling dynamic range and neutrality enabling high levels to be enjoyed. It escapes the ‘LP’ sound and demonstrates that structural resonances in pick-up arms are responsible for much that makes vinyl records readily discernible from master tapes.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

EFFECTIVE MASS
10.0/11.0g

CARTRIDGE BALANCE RANGE
4.2 – 18.0g

VERTICAL TRACKING FORCE
0 – 3.0g(30mN)

MAXIMUM TRACKING ERROR
0.012(degrees per mm)

NULL POINTS
Inner 66.04mm
Outer 120.90mm

AUDIO LEAD
Length 1.2m
Capacitance 140.0 pF per channel
Resistance 0.145 ohms per conductor

INTERNAL WIRING
Capacitance 15.0 pF per channel
Resistance 0.5353 ohms per conductor

OUTPUT PLUG AND SOCKET
DIN 5-pole 240°

WEIGHT NET
720.0g

 

 

 

DISTANCE FROM PIVOT TO STYLUS
233.15mm

DISTANCE FROM PIVOT TO TURNTABLE CENTRE
215.35mm

CARTRIDGE FIXING CENTRES 
12.70mm

OFFSET ANGLE
23.635°

LINEAR OFFSET
93.47mm

OVERHANG
17.8mm

HEIGHT ABOUT MOUNTING SURFACE
max. 87.90mm
min. 56.40mm

HEIGHT OF RECORD SURFACE ABOVE MOUNTING SURFACE
max. 57.90mm
min. 26.40mm

DEPTH BELOW MOUNTING SURFACE
56.75mm

RADIAL CLEARLANCE FOR BALANCE WEIGHT
73.0mm

CLEARANCE BETWEEN CABINET LID AND RECORD SURFACE ASSUMING CARTRIDGE HEIGHT AT 17.0mm
35.0m

OTHER PRODUCTS: ACCESSORIES / TONEARM