Modernising and Enhancing Performance: SME’s Model 35 equipped with the innovative Vi series tonearm emerges, offering both extreme performance and modern aesthetic appeal. The advanced technology incorporated in this design not only surpasses the renowned Model 30 turntable but sets a new standard in its category.
The Model 35 features a sophisticated tri-column design, inspired by SME’s flagship Model 60, crafted with meticulous precision. Its acoustically optimised chassis, paired with de-coupled feet for multipoint isolation, enhances performance by controlling resonance. This innovative engineering results in a compact and streamlined profile, integrating effortlessly into any environment while providing exceptional sound quality.
The SME Model 35 is equipped with the enhanced Series Vi Tonearm, where “i” signifies improvement, demonstrating a significant enhancement over the Series V. The Series Vi tonearm is CNC machined from High-Density Polymer material, ensuring extreme precision. This one-piece design is crafted with tight tolerances and adheres to our rigorous standards of quality control. The Vi tube features a circular cross-sectional shape. This design results in a very low resonance signature with far better measured tonearm and pillar resonances, contributing to pure tonal fidelity.
Every component of the Model 35 is fine-tuned for optimal performance. With its sleek appearance and superior performance, this turntable is the epitome of modern audio engineering.
PRIMARY FEATURES
- Tri-Column Design: De-coupled feet featuring multipoint isolation for enhanced performance.
- Improved Suspension System: Advanced design with vertical and horizontal control for superior stability.
- Main Bearing: Innovative hydraulic damping system.
- Chassis and Platter: Acoustically enhanced main chassis, sub-chassis, and platter.
- Sophisticated Speed Control: State-of-the-art electronic speed control powered by an AC motor with a separate transformer derived from the Model 60
- SME Series Vi Tonearm: Constructed from high-density, high-rigidity non-metallic polymer resin for acoustical inertness.
- Available Colours: Standard Finish: Black and Silver Anodised / Special Finish: Midnight Blue and Gunmetal Anodised
Manuals & Downloads
The Model 35 in the Spotlight
Press Reviews & Awards
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SME Model 35 wins EISA Best High-End Turntable 2026-2027 Award.
EISA Expert Imaging and Sound Association 08/2026
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"Superb speed stability."
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"A beautifully engineered deck."
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"The Model 35 picks musical information from LP grooves without artifice or hesitation, the sound alive with vibrant detail and possessed of dynamics, solidity and sheer scale that sets the standard for high-end decks."
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The SME Model 35 with its new Series Vi arm is an astonishing turntable. It offers world-class detail retrieval, rock-solid pitch stability, a gorgeously stable and believable soundstage, and the ability to track and retrieve deeper bass than you ever imagined could be pressed into a vinyl groove.
Jonathan Gorse,
Soundstage! Ultra, US, 11/2025
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"Apart from the Model 60, I can’t think of any other turntable I have heard that got me quite this close to the source."
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"This was life-affirming and soul-enriching on the Model 35, to the point that I found myself high on music by the end of it."
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"SME has been a specialist in vinyl replay for over 75 years. Built in England to flawless engineering standards by a company that only makes turntables and tonearms, the SME Model 35 proudly takes its place among the pantheon of the world’s greatest turntables."
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SME Model 35 wins 2025 SoundStage! Product of the Year Award.
Soundstage! Hi-Fi, US, 12/2025
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SME has done it again. The Model 35 turntable and Series Vi tonearm are brilliantly engineered and turn in a magnificently musical, poised and joyous performance. The level of insight and dynamic effortlessness that they offer is rarely short of incredible. Even better, the Model 35 gives a strong flavour of the Model 60's capabilities at less than two-thirds of its price. That sounds like a bargain to me.
Paul Miller, Adam Smith,
Hi-Fi News, UK, 07/2025
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"Many good-quality turntables will leave you thinking, 'that's a superb representation of a double bass in front of me'. The Model 35 is more likely to leave you thinking, 'that's a double bass in front of me."
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"I've long believed there aren't many turntables that offer the dynamics, solidity and sheer scale of an SME design - and these characteristics are very much present in the Model 35's performance. Such is its dynamic range and sense of effortlessness, it makes many other turntables sound flat by comparison."
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"The measured stability of the Model 35's drive system is reminiscent of a direct-drive design - so much so that it has many of that technology's sonic hallmarks. Bass is almost endlessly deep, but tight, rhythmical and blessed with insight. There is a small frisson of warmth at all times, which is pleasant and a family trait shared with the Model 12 Mk2."
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HiFi.NL 5 Stars Award!
Ruud Jonker,
HiFi .NL 09/2025
