Unique assembly gives high rigidity and allows bearings to be critically adjusted before tone-arm is fitted. Dynamic balance graduated vertical tracking force (VTF) control applies 0-3g x 0.125g through resonance controlled spring. Axis at record mean level to minimise warp-wow. Carried in massive yoke on 10mm ABEC 7 ball races. A Stainless steel cross shaft, ground and thread ground.
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Fine machined cartridge platform, enamel free to avoid interface resonance. Internal constrained layer damps minute residual vibration leaving the tone-arm acoustically inert. Unique one-piece pressure die-cast tone-arm utilising the advantages of magnesium, replace conventional fabricated construction. The tonearm cable provided is a Van Den Hul M.C. Oracle SME V Tonearms all come in silver finish with Oracle branding and MCS-150 (Mono Crystal Silver) internal wiring. The result is a subtle loss of clarity, dynamic range and transient attack that can make the sound from even the best system tiring to listen to. Unless the pick-up arm holds the latter against even the minutest movement at audio frequencies the signal will be modified in some way. Reproduction can only be true therefore when all movement representing groove modulation is made by the armature to which the stylus cantilever is attached and none by the stator represented by the cartridge body. All cartridges employ relative motion between armature and stator portions of a generating system to produce the signal output. The functioning of a pick-up arm appears simple but is in fact very complex. 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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The series V sound has an almost startling dynamic range and neutrality enabling high levels to be enjoyed. 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. 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.