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We do not recommend punching the pinhole one slip of the hand, and the trapped stylus of a modern high-compliance pickup could be ruined. One of the templates supplied—the tangency locator—has a pinhole point that is supposed to accommodate the pick up's stylus tip. Templates and detailed instructions are supplied with the arm, and a precut mounting board (Model A39M) for the Thorens TD-121 or Thorens TD-124 turntable is available from Shure Bros, for $15. Tangency is adjusted by loosening a pair of knurled nuts beside the arm base, and sliding this along the bedplate. The screws hold a metal bed plate with an elongated cutout in it, and the arm base passes through this plate.

Other features include a damped hydraulic lifter that lowers the arm gently onto the record when released (and then disengages itself), a wooden lining inside the arm tube, to reduce torsional and longitudinal resonances, and a flexible decoupling system for the counterweights, to provide "dynamic damping."įor mounting, the SME requires an elongated hole 1” wide by 2¾” long, ranged by four small holes for the mounting screws. The latter is adjustable over a wide enough range to accommodate a Euphonics Miniconic or an Ortofon pickup. It has wide-range adjustments for tangency, height, static balance, torsional balance, pickup tilt, bias compensation, and tracking force. The 3009 (with 9” pivot-to-stylus distance) is the arm we recommend for the home user, and it shares with the 3012 the distinction of being the most versatile conventional-type tonearm on the market today. The Model 3012 is 12” from pivot to stylus, to accommodate old broadcast-type 16” transcriptions, but its mass is too high for the majority of to day's high-compliance pickups. There are two models available, differing only in pivot-to-stylus distance and in total mass. It was available in a stereo version as far back as 1961, and apart from a couple of minor refinements—the addition of a bias compensator and a new, lightweight shell—it is still the same arm, and it still has the reputation of being the perfectionist's tonearm.