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Aside from Marco's predeliction for err...well... whatever, I understand from the Funk website that the 1200 arm mods will be in the order of £750, same as the Ittok ones. Which makes sense inasmuch as it's the same order of work - rewire, re-arm and headshell. It'd have to kick ass though, that's SME 309 territory cost-wise innit?
Now, where's my spare Techhie arm... and lottery ticket...
Jason
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I think that's going to make it difficult to justify, unless it comprehensively outperforms the Jelco 750, which I would be very surprised with.I understand from the Funk website that the 1200 arm mods will be in the order of £750...
Who knows though? If anyone can transform the Techie arm, Arthur can. I guess that I'll get a listen to the results at some point
Anyway, I'm not sure how relevant to me all this is, since next year I'll be playing around with 12" arms on my SP10
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.
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