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Thats the opinion on the sme website and hardly an unbiased sample. Once upon a time you wouldnt consider changing the lp12 and now look where we are!

SME are a well established company. Its only in recent years that Brinkmann has a reputation outside germany but that in no means invalidates his approach to turntable design just because he is not as well known. A heated bearing is a perfectly valid engineering approach - you are just fishing. Wont work

Currently you havent heard either deck - so lets wait and see. At least you are honest looks and marketing appeal strongly to you. Respect due for that. If only SM was as honest!

Penance - I have never heard that deck - how does it sound?

BTW I like sme kit a lot - I owned an sme v for many years. You might want to listen to the simon yorke pod webcast link I posted as a thread. He has a lot to say about sme decks that is interesting! Even he is a fan of their tonearms though.

<blockquote data-quote="anon_bb" data-source="post: 641196" data-attributes="member: 2360">Thats the opinion on the sme website and hardly an unbiased sample. Once upon a time you wouldnt consider changing the lp12 and now look where we are! SME are a well established company. Its only in recent years that Brinkmann has a reputation outside germany but that in no means invalidates his approach to turntable design just because he is not as well known. A heated bearing is a perfectly valid engineering approach - you are just fishing. Wont work <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick Out Tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Currently you havent heard either deck - so lets wait and see. At least you are honest looks and marketing appeal strongly to you. Respect due for that. If only SM was as honest!Penance - I have never heard that deck - how does it sound?BTW I like sme kit a lot - I owned an sme v for many years. You might want to listen to the simon yorke pod webcast link I posted as a thread. He has a lot to say about sme decks that is interesting! Even he is a fan of their tonearms though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="anon_bb, post: 641196, member: 2360"] Thats the opinion on the sme website and hardly an unbiased sample. Once upon a time you wouldnt consider changing the lp12 and now look where we are! SME are a well established company. Its only in recent years that Brinkmann has a reputation outside germany but that in no means invalidates his approach to turntable design just because he is not as well known. A heated bearing is a perfectly valid engineering approach - you are just fishing. Wont work :P Currently you havent heard either deck - so lets wait and see. At least you are honest looks and marketing appeal strongly to you. Respect due for that. If only SM was as honest! Penance - I have never heard that deck - how does it sound? BTW I like sme kit a lot - I owned an sme v for many years. You might want to listen to the simon yorke pod webcast link I posted as a thread. He has a lot to say about sme decks that is interesting! Even he is a fan of their tonearms though. [/QUOTE]

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