Me, I'd go for the 3009, but I'd worry about finding a good one. All these things sound fine, though the pundits hated them. I use a Beogram 4000, but cartridges and stylus rebuilds are expensive. Well there are the transcriptors/Mitchell turntables and arms. It may have been different when you could replace your records easily, but I think the days of the strident groove-straighteners have ended. A 3009 with one of the better Shure or Ortofon cartridges fits this role. A gentler player will help them last longer. Records are harder to get and are heritage items, I suppose. But the problematic mass exists right there in the cartridge, the only forces presented to the arm are those of the compliance of the mounting elastomer and the wires. Moving coil cartridges do produce rather a high moving mass value seen at the stylus, and they have a rising HF response which nicely compensates the reduction inHF content of the records played with them. But there has been a resurgence of interest in the 3009 (there were very few 3012 arms around) and they have become sought after, and the price reflects it. Joking aside, the SME fell out of favour with the pundits, and people started chasing Ittoks etc. If you think that the path from the cartridge through the arm, bearings chassis and turntable beating must be as stiff as possible, then you ought to question the use of vinyl for records and look for something stiffer. If you think suspending a cartridge by telepathy, and using its mass for its compliance to work against is a good idea, theSME arms are excellent.
At this time the trend towards moving coil cartridges was in full swing. Record players started to be built like cutting lathes. Arms had to be stiff, bearings had to have no weakness. The 3009 was the tool of choice, usually armed with a V15. The fixed headshell is inconvenient sometimes but it reduces the effective mass. I think they sound fine, but my ears are perfectly normal ones. The removable headshell is very convenient but it puts up the effective mass. The real variable is the condition, and there you're in the hands of fate unless you can inspect it first and know what to look for. You probably aren't going to find one for less. The prices you see on Ebay are what they sell for. The 3009 is a gorgeous piece of engineering.
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