Shure SME Series III TA?

[Yamaha B-2]

Anyone have any knowledge of this TA? I am not familiar with it, but there is a VPI HW-19 Mk IV with a SAMA and this arm on Audiogon http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtabl&1131744542. I used an HW-19 Mk IV with an SME 309 for about two years and thought it was a terrific TT/TA combo. Is this Shure Series III some sort of variant of the 3009? Thanks.

 

[ByrdWyngs]

They are sometimes called a 3009 Series III, although they don't have much in common with the original or series II. The arm wands are replaceable rather than the headshell and there were aluminum and titanium arm wands. Supposed to be a very nice low mass arm but I've never cared for the looks and you need to run a rather high compliance cartridge with it because of the low effective mass. There are a couple on eBay right now with decent pictures, just do a search for SME.