Anyone used an SME IV with VPI Aries 2?

Pretty much any arm will be compatible with a high-mass, un-sprung table like the Aries. Problems can arise when you start pairing various arms with sprung tables, like the Linns.

I have a good friend running an SME IV on a TNT. It works very well.

Thank you Raquel. I had a TNT 3.5 with a JMW 10 arm. It worked well too, but it came that way and I never had an occasion to experiment with other arms. How about cartridges? Is your friend using the Dynavector VX-1 or VX-1s? It seems that a lot of people like this cartridge with the SME IV.

Yes, exactly, a Dynavector VX-1s. I'll alert him to your thread.

I run the original Aries with a JMW 10.5 arm and van den Hul Frog.

Gfloyd53, I'm the guy Raquel mentioned. I also had a VPI TNT 3.5 with the JMW-10 tonearm. I ran it with a van den Hul Frog for several years - until May, that is, when I swapped out the JMW-10/Frog for the SME IV and Dynavector XV-1s. The SME IV arm works perfectly with the turntable, and the sound of the new tonearm/cartridge combination significantly surpasses that of the JMW-10/Frog.

If VPI can get you an arm board for the Aries 2 that is machined to accept the SME IV, I would not have any reservation about going in that direction.