Technics SL110

[MCRU]

This looks really nice with the full wooden arm board, does anyone have one? Can they report on it please? Particularly interested to see if it would sound better than my SL1210?

Thx

[Marco]

Hi David,

Yes it looks very nice, but the short answer to your question is 'no'.

If you search the archives under 'SL-110', you should get the details from previous discussions, providing the info you need (pay particular attention to what 'Beobloke', Adam, has to say on the matter) :)

Marco.

[MCRU]

No, you said no! Not even with an SME arm on? :lolsign:

[Marco]

Lol - no, not even with one of those babies! :eyebrows:

Marco.

[DSJR]

HiFi Dave has a good one and I replaced one with an LP12 back in 1976...

The motor drive is like the SL1500 series I've been banging on about for ages, just with a separate platter and possibly a superior bearing. the drive lacks the huge torque of the 1200mk2 onwards and the isolation feet DON'T, to be frank about it. The hollow box-come-bottom cover doesn't really help much either and feedback was a big issue. Please remember that acoustic feedback has a subtle effect on reproduction of spatial information long before howl-round starts up.

My advice regarding the 110 would be to service the speed pots and switches, replace the attractive but sonically useless mat and place the whole shebang in a heavy, sand-lined outer box (with a membrane to prevent sand entering the innards of the turntable casework). I think there's a sonically excellent turntable there, waiting to be found, but as-is, the SL1500 sounds better and even this needs some messing around regarding feet and support (I got the idea for a sand-box from someone on the US who posted pics of a very neat arrangement he'd done to an SL1500, which made it look a bit like the SL1500mk2 which came along two generations later and featured the quartz locking for the first time)

[hifi_dave]

This looks really nice with the full wooden arm board, does anyone have one? Can they report on it please? Particularly interested to see if it would sound better than my SL1210?

Thx

I bought one last year c/w an SME 3009 imp.and Shure V15. It was just for nostalgia really as I lusted after one back in the 70's. It looks great but sounds pretty naff.

I could easily do mods and make it sound better but I bought it for the way it looks.

[MCRU]

Thanks guys, I am going to buy one anyway and turbo charge it.

[Marco]

Good luck, mate. All I can say is that I hope you have a BIG turbocharger!!

It's fatal flaw is that it doesn't have Quartz-controlled speed stabilty (fundamentally important), which was introduced later - and no amount of turbo-charging is gonna fix that.... ;)

But it's your money you'll be pissing down the drain.

Marco.

[Beobloke]

My advice regarding the 110 would be to service the speed pots and switches, replace the attractive but sonically useless mat and place the whole shebang in a heavy, sand-lined outer box (with a membrane to prevent sand entering the innards of the turntable casework). I think there's a sonically excellent turntable there, waiting to be found, but as-is, the SL1500 sounds better and even this needs some messing around regarding feet and support (I got the idea for a sand-box from someone on the US who posted pics of a very neat arrangement he'd done to an SL1500, which made it look a bit like the SL1500mk2 which came along two generations later and featured the quartz locking for the first time)

Or alternatively, you could just buy a nice one, leave it completely standard, fit an SME 3009 and Shure M75ED and simply enjoy the music it makes. If you want the ultimate in sound quality then there are better places to start but the SL110's a rather sweet and cuddly sounding thing IMHO. I'm rather fond of mine!

[Marco]

That's a good plan, I'd say :)

Marco.

[MCRU]

Or alternatively, you could just buy a nice one, leave it completely standard, fit an SME 3009 and Shure M75ED and simply enjoy the music it makes. If you want the ultimate in sound quality then there are better places to start but the SL110's a rather sweet and cuddly sounding thing IMHO. I'm rather fond of mine!

Thanks for the sound advice mate, I actually just acquired one with an SME arm fitted, hope the deal goes through, I also just purchased a Jelco arm so it's been a busy night so far!

I have to go now to package up an Isotek Aquarius and Syncro to be shipped tomorrow, busy,busy,busy.

[Tarzan]

Thanks guys, I am going to buy one anyway and turbo charge it.

Let us know how you get on David:)

[MCRU]

Will do tarzan, thanks.

[spendorman]

I have one with an SME arm, no complaints, my other decks include an immaculate TD124 Mk2.

[ludovico]

Hi.

I have also a Technics SL-110 deck, and I decided to swap my SME 3009 for a Jelco 750D.

I will receinve the tonearm and its cable very soon. I made a Cherry Wood armboard to instal the arm.

I will post some pictures when I finish.

[Marco]

Bonjour Bastien,

Ça va? :) Welcome to AoS!

Please could you pop into the Welcome area and introduce yourself to our members, telling us what system you've got and what music you like, as this is required from all new members.

Merci bien! :cool:

Marco.

[MCRU]

I am just waiting for Nick (lurcher) to kindly collect my SL110 from Brian and then I can post some images.

[ludovico]

Here is my deck fitted with the Jelco 750D. This is not definitive as I will receive a beautiful cherry wood armboard soon...

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/7025/dsc02436uq.jpg

Level...

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/9297/dsc02433x.jpg

Front view:

http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/1379/dsc02437f.jpg

[MCRU]

Picked mine up yesterday, what happened to the original wood off yours then?

[ludovico]

Picked mine up yesterday, what happened to the original wood off yours then?

I have the original wood armboard but it has an hole to fit a SME 3009.

[ludovico]

I have found some interesting pics of an SL-110 placed on Mitchell Cotter Turntable bases. I plan to do the same thing, with sand in the base for a better isolation. But in these photos the stock feets are still here, so I don't think it is useful. I think the feets have to be removed.

http://www.hifiwigwam.com/showthread.php?6672-Technics-SP10-questions.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i318/murrayjohnson/loft_16.jpg

http://www.loftparty.org/gallery/loft_11.JPG

[ludovico]

Hi.

Has anyone changed the stock feets? What feet can be used with the SL-110?

[MCRU]

Try these under the existing feet, good results by all who have used them:-

Blue Horizon Spiked Feet (http://www.mains-cables-r-us.co.uk/hi-fi-equipment-supports/154-blue-horizon-spikefeet.html)

[Dominic Harper]

This thread is of particular interest, was telling the Missus only the other day I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a 110!
You lot have put me off now:lol:

[MCRU]

This thread is of particular interest, was telling the Missus only the other day I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a 110!
You lot have put me off now:lol:

Get in your car Dom, drive over to mine and I have a 110 sat here you can have for what I paid for it, won't have time to do what I wanted to it, and you can pick up the Lenco to renovate at the same time?

[Dominic Harper]

Drop me an email David! Not sure I want it yet.

[ludovico]

This thread is of particular interest, was telling the Missus only the other day I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a 110!
You lot have put me off now:lol:

The best you can do to upgrade an SL-110 is putting a good arm on it, for example a Jelco 750D:)

[DSJR]

This whole quartz locked thing is a tiny bit of a mis-leader IMO. The standard previous decks were fine if the tracking weights are under 2g - IMO. The 1500 tracks my other Supex 900E really well at 1.8g with no pitch difficulties.

If you look at the supplied mat, you'll see there are three tiny concentric rings on it and these don't really support the record properly. I suggest a Herbies/Timestep mat in the first instance, and possibly a Funk, although I personally haven't heard it. The rubberised cork option may be worth a look as well - anything to support the record and isolate it from the plinth as well :)