SAEC WE-308SX Tonearm Double Knife Edge w/Phono Cable

CONDITION

This tonearm is in excellent condition and working properly.

Included accessories: counterweight, sub weight, anti-skating weight, and phono cable.

ABOUT THIS ITEM

The SAEC WE-308SX is a static balance, universal type tonearm manufactured in Japan by SAEC (Saec Commerce, formerly Audio Engineering Corporation), a Tokyo-based specialist founded in 1974 and renowned worldwide for its tonearm engineering. Introduced around 1978 as the refined successor to the acclaimed WE-308 series, it employs SAEC's signature double knife edge bearing, in which four blades instead of the conventional two hold the edge receiver firmly from above and both sides, forming a rigid pivot axis with no mechanical play. The blades are finished to a diameter of less than 0.02 mm, machine cut to 0.05 mm and then completed by hand, and the WE-308SX uses hard ruby for the contact surfaces.

This bearing structure gives extremely low friction and high sensitivity, allowing the arm to trace record grooves faithfully across a wide range of tracking forces and to draw the full performance from high-compliance and low-compliance cartridges alike. The universal type headshell connector accepts standard interchangeable headshells, and the arm carries a full length of 329 mm with an effective length of 240 mm, an overhang of 5 mm, and zero tracking error at the inner grooves. Reproduction is characterized by precise imaging, firm definition, and a clean, unclouded presentation across the frequency range.

— Grape Japan