stevewild
08-04-2015, 14:01
Hi! :)
My name is Steve - as you may have guessed from user-name!
I'm living over in East Anglia...Suffolk - a lovely part of the country, but a little forgotten it seems at times!
I've been into HiFi and turntables ever since around 1978, and in 1979 had my first full-time job in a small independent Panasonic/Technics dealership in Banbury, Oxon. It's nice to that shop is still in business. :)
In those distant early 80's I had an assortment of turntables, starting from the nasty plastic BSR changers in a couple of Ferguson music-centres that were passed down to me when parents upgraded, and then moving up to replacing the BSR with a Garrard 'Zero' series deck. From there came a Rega Planar 3, and then a Logic DM-101 w/Mission 774 arm. That sounded great but was a pig to keep in tune and balance!
Since then, after the Logic had moved on, I wound-up with a Dual CS-508 which wasn't bad, but the blasted headshell being so proprietary to certain Duals, when it broke, it wasn't worth repairing or trying to find the expensive replacement parts. So, now I seem to have a handful of Technics decks!
I always liked them a lot all those years ago in my first job, and it's nice to have them still working and sounding great now. :)
The line-up: Technics SL-B202, SL-D202, SL-Q303, and an SL-1210 mkII.
I also have a nice old non-plastic BSR-P128r which only cost me a fiver, but runs as new and actually sounds very good indeed! And is perfect for 78's.... :)
The Technics are in frequent rotation, and unusually I'm sure, I prefer the sound quality from the two plastic bodied Technics; the SL-B202 and D202 to that from the Q303 and 1210 which are aluminium, and sound to me, over-damped and a bit 'flat' - lifeless!
Anyway, that's enough about me and my collection of modest - but I feel decent, turntables....... :)
Thanks for sticking with me this far!
Now to go and explore the rest of the forums :)
My name is Steve - as you may have guessed from user-name!
I'm living over in East Anglia...Suffolk - a lovely part of the country, but a little forgotten it seems at times!
I've been into HiFi and turntables ever since around 1978, and in 1979 had my first full-time job in a small independent Panasonic/Technics dealership in Banbury, Oxon. It's nice to that shop is still in business. :)
In those distant early 80's I had an assortment of turntables, starting from the nasty plastic BSR changers in a couple of Ferguson music-centres that were passed down to me when parents upgraded, and then moving up to replacing the BSR with a Garrard 'Zero' series deck. From there came a Rega Planar 3, and then a Logic DM-101 w/Mission 774 arm. That sounded great but was a pig to keep in tune and balance!
Since then, after the Logic had moved on, I wound-up with a Dual CS-508 which wasn't bad, but the blasted headshell being so proprietary to certain Duals, when it broke, it wasn't worth repairing or trying to find the expensive replacement parts. So, now I seem to have a handful of Technics decks!
I always liked them a lot all those years ago in my first job, and it's nice to have them still working and sounding great now. :)
The line-up: Technics SL-B202, SL-D202, SL-Q303, and an SL-1210 mkII.
I also have a nice old non-plastic BSR-P128r which only cost me a fiver, but runs as new and actually sounds very good indeed! And is perfect for 78's.... :)
The Technics are in frequent rotation, and unusually I'm sure, I prefer the sound quality from the two plastic bodied Technics; the SL-B202 and D202 to that from the Q303 and 1210 which are aluminium, and sound to me, over-damped and a bit 'flat' - lifeless!
Anyway, that's enough about me and my collection of modest - but I feel decent, turntables....... :)
Thanks for sticking with me this far!
Now to go and explore the rest of the forums :)