More conventional metalssuch as titanium, which cannot be diecast, or aluminum, which can be diecast but is normally machined from a blockhave far more crystalline structures and higher Q resonances (the material has less inherent damping).
Diecasting produces an alloy both very homogeneous and highly amorphous. The arm-tube and headshell are pressure-diecast in one piece, magnesium alloy being chosen because of its very high stiffness-to-weight ratio and its suitability for diecasting. To call the Series V a good-looking tonearm is something of an understatement. However, SME is now backwith a vengeance! I believe that, once again, it is fair to say that SME makes "the best tonearm in the world."
Delays due, among other things, to problems in finding subcontractors who could carry out work to the desired degree of qualitySME's Alastair Robertson-Aikman will not release a product until he feels that it is rightmeant that it took almost two years for that arm to hit the market. It wasn't being played, there was no way to tell how it sounded, but it certainly looked the business.
I had just about written SME off as a serious high-end company when, at the 1984 Summer CES, I saw the first prototype of the Series V. Once upon a time, SME made " the best tonearm in the world." That claim may have been justifiable through the 1960s and early '70s, but then something happenedSME failed to keep pace with their competition in coping with the increasing popularity of low- to medium-compliance, highish-mass, moving-coil cartridges.
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