Vintage 1958 SME 3012 Tonearm

[kuruvilajacob]

Hi Folks,
I had purchased an excellent L-75 recently and going through number of posts about an effective plinth modification and wished in my heart about getting a good tone arm for it. Out of the blue a gentlemen called me wanting to buy a Dual 704 DD from me. When he came here to buy the Dual, he surprised me by telling that he has a Thorens 124 model 2 with a SME 3012 which he has been using for several years.In fact, it was his father who bought it 20 odd years ago and during the course of time replaced the original SME 3012 arm with a later model. He saw all the arm pods and other players I had and told me that I was not planning to sell the spare tone arm but thought I can have better use of it and asked if I was interested in buying it. I told him that i was looking for one for my Lenco L-75 and made a bee-line to his place to grab it. To my surprise, I found that he lives in the remote village in Kerala and they are farmers and has a small business selling Fertilizers! I looked in the net and this arm appears to be one of the earliest models of SME 3012 . Now for some pics of the vintage tonearm and his venerable Thorens TD 124 Mark 2

 

[Rajiv]

Hi,

I looked in the net and this arm appears to be one of the earliest models of SME 3012 .

Congratulations, the early SME 3012 arms(series I) are very collectable and are far more expensive than the later models.

Regards
Rajiv

 

[reubensm]

Hi Folks,
I had purchased an excellent L-75 recently and going through number of posts about an effective plinth modification and wished in my heart about getting a good tone arm for it. Out of the blue a gentlemen called me wanting to buy a Dual 704 DD from me. When he came here to buy the Dual, he surprised me by telling that he has a Thorens 124 model 2 with a SME 3012 which he has been using for several years.In fact, it was his father who bought it 20 odd years ago and during the course of time replaced the original SME 3012 arm with a later model. He saw all the arm pods and other players I had and told me that I was not planning to sell the spare tone arm but thought I can have better use of it and asked if I was interested in buying it. I told him that i was looking for one for my Lenco L-75 and made a bee-line to his place to grab it. To my surprise, I found that he lives in the remote village in Kerala and they are farmers and has a small business selling Fertilizers! I looked in the net and this arm appears to be one of the earliest models of SME 3012 . Now for some pics of the vintage tonearm and his venerable Thorens TD 124 Mark 2

Kerala is truly one amazing place for Turntables and records. I have realized this in the very recent past.

 

[kuruvilajacob]

Kerala is truly one amazing place for Turntables and records. I have realized this in the very recent past.

Reuben,
It was from a remote village past Thodupuzha and I know Thodupuzha is a place close to your heart

 

[Her Master's Voice]

Congratulations to your new tonearm. If this is really a SME type 1 tonearm it has a rotating headshell socket and you can use SME headshells (square pin configuration) as well as EMT/Neumann headshells (star pin configuration).

 

[kuruvilajacob]

The previous owner was planning to use Mono cartridge with the Heas shell which came with the arm. He told me it differed from the normal SME Head shell.

 

[analogadikt]

Congratulations to your new tonearm. If this is really a SME type 1 tonearm it has a rotating headshell socket and you can use SME headshells (square pin configuration) as well as EMT/Neumann headshells (star pin configuration).

Hi!

Can you provide a link for the source of this information?



Regards,