SME debuted a new "Flagship" turntable at an event held March 25th, 2022 at the company's Steyning, West Sussex U.K. headquarters and in the legendary listening room of the company's founder, the late Alastair Robertson-Aikman. When I asked CEO Stuart McNeilis if yet another factory tour was necessary, he said "you be the judge". The answer was "yes" as new owner Ajay Shirke has made considerable investments in SME including new CNC machines, a brand new state of the art plating facility and a new tolerance measuring system that produces even greater machining tolerances than the already legendary SME precision.

As for the new Model 60, it combines all-new thinking and engineering with what was best about the former "flagship" Model 30, including a new internally mounted "O-ring" suspension system the isolates both vertically as before and now horizontally as well. There's a new A.C. motor and motor control system in place of the 30's D.C. motor and now the transformer is externally mounted in its own chassis so it can be further isolated form the signal path.

The new Model VA arm is machined from a 'space age' polymer in place of the V's magnesium tube arm and the termination is now in chassis-mounted RCA jacks instead of the traditional DIN plug. There's more to see in the exclusive video.