New Solid Aluminium Platter for the SL1200

Hi Dave,

Point taken, and thanks for your concern, but we only lock threads here in the most exceptional circumstances. Besides, I'd like to give Jason (or anyone else) the opportunity to answer my question :)

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I don't know which particular one, but I've been told that the Techie quartz Locked drive was often latched onto cutting-lathe platters...

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Wasn't that pooh-poohed by Guy further back in the thread, or perhaps elsewhere? A link which shows evidence of what you're referring to, or something of that nature, would be good :cool:

Marco.

That'd be the SP-02 motor that is often used to drive Neumann lathes. It wouldn't be mistaken for the motor in a 1210!

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...e_sound/gi.jpg

LOL - don't look like it to me! :eyebrows:

Marco.

Thank you sirs :lol:

I'll now go back to crying over my CD player :(

:scratch:

Years ago, people went totally crazy when some started using fat or large audio cables. People started saying that this measurement and that measurement could not possibly motivate getting bigger gauge speaker cables. The idea was or seemed so new.

It was like the whole discussion and refusal when the potato was introduced to market a long time ago ....Human nature resist changes, be it an object, an idea or a religion. So change is either brought upon by a nut case, a genius or a visionnary.....or an audiophile who likes to try things.

I have modified a few turntables; the spare part bin is full or trials & errors & superseeded modifications that tought me different lessons.....
Their comes a point where you have to take an educated guess, take a risk and try something.
I remember years ago when I bought the current regulator board for the Lynn turntable and adapted it to the Michell turtable - the clerk told me it was at my own risk; I was OK with that and the swap was a success...

After a while, you come to know what is a decently made high quality & performing bearing. As for the platter, good platters are mostly heavy and made of metal, metal & acrylic or some exotic material.

For sure, the stock bearing of the Technics is no match to Dave's bearing and absolutly no match to the stupendous Mike New bearing by its sheer construction, weight and execution.
Add the custom 12 pound platter and you have a completly different turntable.
Add the KAB or Timestep power supply, you also get a different turntable...

We are all different about decisions on different aspects of life: sometime we will agree to try something, sometimes we want something well tested and sometimes we just want something that simply works.

In any case, say you do buy the platter,

If for some insane reason you do not like it you can re-sell it....


Yves

- here is a photo of the platter.

(Needed to keep the 2 copper pieces because of the high custom 20 mm thick armboard, level with the plinth.)

http://theartofsound.net/forum/pictu...&pictureid=263

Hey, someone's 'shotgunned' your tonearm! ;)

Marco.

http://www.audiomods.co.uk/ ;)

Madness....but hey, if it works, it works! :eyebrows:

Marco.

A shame the chap who does these arms can't buy the arm-pipes from Rega as it's the cheapest part (they told me) in the quantities they manufacture..... His mods make sense I think..

Now, anyone with further concerns on the motor-unit's abilities with driving the mass should be comforted with that picture, as those copper "mats" aren't lightweight... ;)

P.S. There's a bloomin' centre weight too...................................