Senior Member
Location: Down South
Posts: 2,413
I'm Neal.
FS: Technics SL120 TT
I have an SL120 Direct Drive TT for sale in good nick. Comes with an SME arm mount but no arm or cart. Original manual included plus a home made heavy CLD plinth made from Norwegian ply and lead sheet. The original base and legs are also included plus the lid. The 33.3rpm adjustment pot is a little worn and either needs a squirt of contact cleaner or replacement. Asking £80 plus shipping (negotiable) or welcome to collect from the Hemel Heampstead area.
Pics to follow.
Gone, but not forgotten
Location: Central England
Posts: 2,932
André!
I really think this could be for you.
Site Owner/Administrator
Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
Posts: 110,012
I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
Looking forward to seeing the pics, NRG - sounds like a bargain
I know what the SL120 is about (basically my deck without an arm) It could be a nice little project for someone...
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!
Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!
Banned
Posts: 505
Yeh right steveOriginally Posted by Marco
Looking forward to seeing the pics, NRG - sounds like a bargain
I know what the SL120 is about (basically my deck without an arm) It could be a nice little project for someone...
Marco.
...............................
Marco yours has slider pitch control, that doesn't.
I prefer the 'SL110' out of all the DJ veriety.
Last edited by Vinyl Grinder; 16-02-2008 at 15:15.
Senior Member
Location: Down South
Posts: 2,413
I'm Neal.
Here are the pics: (the 309 is not included!)
Site Owner/Administrator
Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
Posts: 110,012
I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
LOL. What are you like? It's got the IDENTICAL direct-drive mechanism of the SL-1200/1210 and is the same in every other way, too - yes, apart from the pitch control, which if disabled (as mine always is) does diddly squat to affect the soundMarco yours has slider pitch control, that doesn't.
I prefer the 'SL110' out of all the DJ veriety.
Fair enough if you prefer the SL-110 - given the choice I would, too (excluding KAB mods), but the slider pitch control affects bugger all, mate. It just upsets your purist sensibilities!
On a more serious note, if NRG's deck is in good working order (and I've got no reason to think otherwise) then this is a f*cking SERIOUS bargain for someone!!!
Fit a decent arm and cartridge, get a KAB PS-1200 external PSU, sort out a proper mat, and it will trounce almost anything on the market today short of the most esoteric designs. It will certainly easily outperform the LP12s, Thorens', and Regas of this world.
Discerning listeners form a queue now...
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!
Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!
Site Owner/Administrator
Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
Posts: 110,012
I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
NRG,
Incidentally, why are you selling it? What are you using/going to buy that you think is better?
For your sake, mate, it had better be very, very good or you might in future have some sleepless nights regretting selling it!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!
Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!
Senior Member
Location: Middlesex, UK
Posts: 4,482
I'm Alex.
All idler wheels make a noise to some extent. It may be very quiet but it is still there. The TD 124 is very good in this respect, better than most other decks that use an idler wheel but is not as quiet as a good belt. Yes, of course the TD 124 has one of those as well.
The SL110 is very heavy, well made, very robust and very quiet, a good start. I cannot say which sounds better to me TD124 of SL110 as I have different arms on them, different cartridges etc. but they both sound very good to me
Alien Entity
Location: North East UK
Posts: 6,358
I'm InSpace.
????
Hmmm..... My dilemma is not resolved then!
I have a GL75 here, and a SL120 'on the way', so to speak, and one Hadcock tonearm!
Which one do I expend my efforts on first?... Guess I'll never know until I do both?
Senior Member
Location: Down South
Posts: 2,413
I'm Neal.
Marco, to answer your earlier Q, I bought it off Ebay a couple of years ago when I was looking at the Belt drive vs DD vs idler thing. In the end my Gyro lost out as did the SL120 to a Lenco '99. It just ticked all the right boxes for me.... Then a while later I heard an SP10 and well....I just had to get one. It needs a plinth and I rather fancy one of the SlateDeck ones so I need to free some capital and space LOL!
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
