Vintage analogue broadcast equipment

[Beobloke]

Interesting, Adam. Is their design based on a Technics D/D motor unit? It looks a bit like that to me. The tonearm also looks rather like a Jelco 750....

Marco.

No, it's a JVC DD motor. Not as torquey as the Technics but still fairly hefty and with more guts than most!

Interestingly I was lured out of DJ retirement last year for the wedding of my sister's oldest friend. I borrowed back my DJ gear from the friend i sold it to and took along my Technics SL-1210 and the LAD GAJ-942 for turntable duties.

Both are standard and both were running Ortofon OM Pro S cartridges but what was very interesting was that the LAD/Jelco absolutely wiped the floor with the Techie in sound quality terms! It was not long after this that i finally sold the SL-1210. OF course, If I'd knwon they were going to stop making it I would have hung onto it a bit longer!

[Marco]

Both are standard and both were running Ortofon OM Pro S cartridges but what was very interesting was that the LAD/Jelco absolutely wiped the floor with the Techie in sound quality terms! It was not long after this that i finally sold the SL-1210.

Obviously the Techie was still stock with no mods done to it....

No doubt the LADs are great decks, but it was a shame you punted the Techie before getting to hear its true potential, or perhaps that was before all the mods available for it now were out?

In its current iteration, I'd put my Techie up against pretty much any T/T out there and be confident that it wouldn't be disgraced

Marco.

[Techno Commander]

Vintage BBC tonearm on the bay.

[Barry]

Nice one... This is a cool site with lots of pics of broadcast T/Ts/arms & carts, and a nice section on vintage mono kit:

http://members.myactv.net/~je205d/mono.htm And for vintage broadcast tonearms: http://members.myactv.net/~je183/retro.htm

Anyone else here love 16" T/Ts? I do! Here's a lovely RCA one with SME 3012 arm and an EMT broadcast cartridge:





Rek-o-Kut LP743 plus Gray and Rek-O-kut arms:





AWESOME!!


A most apt quote from within the text on that site:



Indeed!!!


From the site linked to above, this for me has to be the nicest listening room I've ever seen - bet the acoustics in there are near perfect....







Marco.

Being the pedant you expect me to be, I ought to point out that the cartridge is a Thorens MCH-1. Built by EMT for Thorens (at a time when the two companies had merged), the MCH-1 is "90% of a TSD15 but with softer suspension for the Thorens arm". Presumably this meant the compliance was higher, because the Thorens (and SME) were less massy.

Love the look of that room by the way, though the acoustics look 'hard'.

Regards

[Marco]

Hi Barry,

Thanks for the clarification. It's important that the details are accurate

I know exactly where you're coming from with the "hard" comment, but I suspect it may not be the case in this instance.

We'll never know for sure, though, unless we're invited there for a sesh!

Marco.