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SME Rewire Service

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GP Hill said:
SME tonearms in Canada does this.
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I looked at their site. They have one continuous run of shielded Litz from cartridge pins to preamp RCAs. No break, no RCAs on the arm can. The terminations at the cartridge pins look amazing. Pricy stuff but probably excellent.

Does anyone have this product?
 
MRL_Audio said:
+1. Had my 3009 done. Very happy with the results.
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Did they use the shielded wire with no terminations between the cartridge pins and the RCAs that connect to the preamp?

His much sound improvement did you experience? Was it noticeable?
 
How do they get two runs of wire through the arm, seems like a little too much, and will effect the free play/travel of the arm. I'm sure they do a nice job but $350?


"- We install a double continuous uninterrupted 1.25 meter run of one of the finest Cardas tonearm cables in the world.
- The 4 X 33 Awg Cardas Litz 18 Karat Gold Wire"
 
sfrost said:
How do they get two runs of wire through the arm, seems like a little too much, and will effect the free play/travel of the arm. I'm sure they do a nice job but $350?


"- We install a double continuous uninterrupted 1.25 meter run of one of the finest Cardas tonearm cables in the world.
- The 4 X 33 Awg Cardas Litz 18 Karat Gold Wire"
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I would like to know more about this too?
 
tonefoto said:
When I shipped they confirmed the rewire service was $400 USD. After they dismantled it they more than doubled that quote.
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$800 to rewire an SME tonearm? Is that how much it costs these days?

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tonefoto said:
Actually, the website shows $400 for complete rewire service. Once they got my arm they quoted $855.00. I refused. The guy seemed pretty sleazy. Never could pin him down to anything, very untrustworthy sounding to me. Now they have my arm in pieces and incomplete and want $200 to get it mailed back in a "pouch" when I shipped it in a box.
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$200 to receive a box of parts?

Just outta curiosity, why did you feel the arm needed to be rewired?

Thanks!
 
bobins08 said:
I looked at their site. They have one continuous run of shielded Litz from cartridge pins to preamp RCAs. No break, no RCAs on the arm can. The terminations at the cartridge pins look amazing. Pricy stuff but probably excellent.

Does anyone have this product?
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I got my 3012-R rewired by them with great results! I don't remember exactly what it costed but it involved some other restoration-type stuff on an arm that was in pretty good condition to begin with. I had it done with XLRs due to my balanced system and otherwise gone over top to bottom. It wasn't cheap (800 sounds accurate), but as my favorite Italian grocery store likes to say, quality is remembered long after price is forgotten. Alfred is great.
 
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