Timestep psu for the SL1200

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Originally Posted by Ritch

Oh well no answer to my question just a load of blatant self advertising and cynicism. Sad to see. I'm young and probably naive. Just starting out on my audio odyssey it would be nice for those older and wiser to give encouragement to us young 'uns. Far be it for me to offer advice but I'll pose my final question: Forget all this bull about which piece of equipment is better and who does it better. What's wrong with just listening to and enjoying the music?

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HI Ritch

I have read your posts and while I am not able to offer any comment on the question you asked, I am struggling to understand why you want to "I'm out of here too." (where did that go?)

AOS is very different to other forums like Hi-Fi wig wam, ZG, PFM etc in that this is a friendly place for the trade. On other forums trade are locked in a box unable to speak, share their thoughts, knowledge etc as "its all suspect, and they are the enemy don't you know." On AOS its the opposite trade are welcome to post and thread start and take part in discussions freely unless they start to play games and bad mouth other items in favour of their own. This would see admin stepping in (right guys). If a claim could be substantiated that might be different. Many, if not all of the guys who post here, including admin and the forum owner are hi-fi enthusiasts and I for one I'm glad that they feel free to recommend those in the trade who offer good to great service or warn about those who don't (caveats are always given to keep a balance). I know its easy to be cynical about people and situations you don't know about, but I can assure you this is one of the most friendly and helpful forums I know of. I have been here since NOV last year and in that time I have been given advice, stuff for free, a lot of encouragement and I feel valued here....oh yes there have been a few little spats and miss understandings but that happens in life, even virtual life. My experiences else where are not that good. I know you don't know me...so I have no credibility with you but I would ask that you reconsider. AOS is a good place to be, there is plenty to learn and share. You say you are new, so what. I would bet you have plenty to enrich us all with and the forum in general in many areas we don't yet know about.

Anyway Ritch for what its worth please give AOS a bit longer. It may ultimately not be for you, but you may never know if you don't hang around.

Regards D S D L----Neil :)

Neil, the voice of sanity and reason as usual! Thanks for you kind words - as you know we try to do our best :)

I deleted the part of Ritch's post that you're referring to as I'm getting a bit fed up lately with people chucking their toys out of their pram when they feel that things aren't going exactly the way they want!

This is not necessarily any reflection on Ritch, as he's new here, but I do find his post a little bizarre given that the very information/service he seeks is available from Dave. Furthermore, the rest of the membership, as always, will only be too willing to help, so there was no need whatsoever for his 'tantrum'.

Hopefully Ritch will be back to explain exactly what it is he wants... :confused:

Marco.

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Originally Posted by Dave Cawley

Do you have the Pioneer service manual? I could re-work it in 3 hours?

Dave

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Hi Dave - result!!! :)

I now have the PL71 service manual - found it on a website in the States (cost me 15 Bucks for the download though) so we could be good to go. I'm not sure if the 71 uses any obsolete sparky bits, but mechanically mine's pretty much spot-on (apart from a dicky bias adjust on the arm).

I would so love to have this beastie running as Mr Pioneer originally intended - if I did I think I'd keep it forever. :)

Er....sorry...back to the Time Step thread... :)

LOL - result, Richard! :)

Is there any limit to Dave's talents? :eyebrows:

Marco.

Hi Richard

OK, send the manual to dave@soundhifi.com for me to have a quick look please?

Where did you get it, I'm desperate for a Micro Seiki DQX-1000 service manual. Just bought it and having some arm mounts made up. More bling than an SP-10 but I suspect not as good, time will tell!

Regards

Dave

I'm sorry to see that history has been re-written and there is no trace of what happened. When a post is deleted there really should be a comment left behind explaining that a moderator removed that they believe to be an inappropriate post. Making it look like the post never existed is not ethical, it's not part of my ethics anyway.

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Originally Posted by Ritch

Wow, that is a pretty sweeping statement, can you qualify it? I'm looking to start off my vinyl journey with a good (if not new) example of the SL-1200 or 1210 and would also consider buying an SP-10 if the price was right. Now you have me worried if I should bother looking at all.

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Hi Ritch,

If you are just starting with a vinyl rig, I believe you can't find a better starting point than a standard SL1200 or SL1210. I wish I'd discovered it's virtues whe I was starting out.

I can't help feeling that an SP10 needs more of an investment to get the best out of it.

You can also really make a big improvement to the presentation of music from an SL1200/SL1210 by the addition of either a Time Step or a KAB power supply.

Nothing is wrong with just listening to and enjoying the music. I've found that not all music is easy to get on first hearing, I've also found that some systems can completly destroy some styles of music, usually to my ears by destroying the timing cues, or the sense of musicians playing together if you prefer. For other people it's the timbral aspects that are more important. F'rinstance, I couldn't stand listening to Billy Holiday until I changed a certain set of speakers that I owned that were particularly peaky with her voice.

I often tell people who are not audiophools that most replay system get in the way of musical enjoyment, because many of them do destroy the music.

Lastly, you're most likely aware of this, how you read what someone has written on a forum depends entirely on how you choose to read, because aprt from the odd smiley, you cannot tell what tone someone is typing in.

So stick around a while

cheers

Clive,

If you're referring to Gerry's rude and uncalled for tantrum earlier it was deleted because it was completely inappropriate and totally out of order. I don't have to explain myself.

This thread is about the Time Step PSU and/or anything else relating to that - nothing else, so I would ask you to respect the thread topic. Any other comments of a different nature will be deleted accordingly.

Thank you :)

Marco.

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If you are just starting with a vinyl rig, I believe you can't find a better starting point than a standard SL1200 or SL1210. I wish I'd discovered it's virtues whe I was starting out.

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Same here, Peter - I would have saved a fortune!

But I guess that I'm not the only one...

Bloody Linn belt-drive Mafia of the 70s and 80s, eh?

Marco.

Sheep, innit ? :mental:;)