birddog
04-07-2008, 04:31 PM
Not mine.... :scratch2:
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/ele/633966738.html
SME 3009 Tonearm with Anti-Skate on Thorens 125/126 Board EXC - $150 (Brighton)
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Reply to: sale-633966738@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-07, 6:17PM EDT
SME 3009 Tonearm with Anti-Skate on Thorens 125/126 Board EXC
This is a famous Shure SME 3009 Knife-edge bearing J-shaped tonearm in really great condition, with two headshells in okay condition, and the weights you need to set this up. This was a groundbreaking tonearm and still sounds terrific with quite a range of cartridges that demand medium to medium/low mass tonearms and very low friction, such as Grado, higher model Stanton/Pickering, most Shure cartridges over the years, including the V15MR if you are fortunate enough to own one, and many MC carts, which usually perform terribly on super low-mass arms.
If you are rebuilding an old Thorens 125 or 126 drive, this already is on their factory made composite arm board, so it's a snap to change out. The original cable is long gone, which is fine, since after so many years, it would be falling apart and/or sounding terrible now, anyway. It's not that hard to hard-solder real cables to the socket under the gimbal pillar, and used SME cables are out there, so you can buy one to cannibalize to make a plug in, if you really want to that badly.
These tonearms were state-of-the-art 30 years ago, and have always been well regarded since. Set up correctly, with a good cart properly mounted, and a really good alignment, this still blows the common modern record player out of the water on a good drive. Put this on your old Thorens, Empire, Linn, or other quality drive and enjoy something really special: this was a nice, and not unusual upgrade, for people with basic Thorens 120/140/160 series turntables, and it can be done on 300 series tables, too. Nice arm, really nice condition, stupid nice price: first $150 Cash gets it, exactly as you see in the picture. The Thorens factory armboard alone sold for $45 over 20 years ago! They are nearly impossible to find now. If you don't need it, I'll sell the arm alone for $125 and take it off the board, but you never know when you'll find a 125/126 out there!
Please reply with the supplied link with your phone numbers, and thanks for looking!
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/ele/633966738.html
SME 3009 Tonearm with Anti-Skate on Thorens 125/126 Board EXC - $150 (Brighton)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reply to: sale-633966738@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-07, 6:17PM EDT
SME 3009 Tonearm with Anti-Skate on Thorens 125/126 Board EXC
This is a famous Shure SME 3009 Knife-edge bearing J-shaped tonearm in really great condition, with two headshells in okay condition, and the weights you need to set this up. This was a groundbreaking tonearm and still sounds terrific with quite a range of cartridges that demand medium to medium/low mass tonearms and very low friction, such as Grado, higher model Stanton/Pickering, most Shure cartridges over the years, including the V15MR if you are fortunate enough to own one, and many MC carts, which usually perform terribly on super low-mass arms.
If you are rebuilding an old Thorens 125 or 126 drive, this already is on their factory made composite arm board, so it's a snap to change out. The original cable is long gone, which is fine, since after so many years, it would be falling apart and/or sounding terrible now, anyway. It's not that hard to hard-solder real cables to the socket under the gimbal pillar, and used SME cables are out there, so you can buy one to cannibalize to make a plug in, if you really want to that badly.
These tonearms were state-of-the-art 30 years ago, and have always been well regarded since. Set up correctly, with a good cart properly mounted, and a really good alignment, this still blows the common modern record player out of the water on a good drive. Put this on your old Thorens, Empire, Linn, or other quality drive and enjoy something really special: this was a nice, and not unusual upgrade, for people with basic Thorens 120/140/160 series turntables, and it can be done on 300 series tables, too. Nice arm, really nice condition, stupid nice price: first $150 Cash gets it, exactly as you see in the picture. The Thorens factory armboard alone sold for $45 over 20 years ago! They are nearly impossible to find now. If you don't need it, I'll sell the arm alone for $125 and take it off the board, but you never know when you'll find a 125/126 out there!
Please reply with the supplied link with your phone numbers, and thanks for looking!