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Please read our recommendations for alignment of RS and AS tonearm models here. SME Series I, II, III Tone Arms Reviewed. Baerwald alignment has a zero tracking angle error at 66mm and 120.9 mm distance from the center of the platter.
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165: Back to the shadow you Schroeder-ites You shall not pass (3.73) Posted by Doug Deacon on, 09:20:00 (207.16.60.
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Just for background, the Empire dates from the early 1960s and is a heavy, unsuspended b. Mine was mostly stock, with an SME 3009 s2. Please note: The AS-212S, AS-309S, RS-212D and RS-309D tonearms have a Japanese geometry, which will not directly fit the normal Baerwald alignment. My current project is rebuilding an Empire 208 turntable. The 3009 tonearms consists of four major revisions or series, with subversions under them again. that were produced from 1959 to around 1986.