I wonder how Richard ever got on with his MN bearing? For some reason, these days he seems to prefer living on pfm, even though there is much more Techy chat here..... :confused:
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The MN bearing seems to work fine. However, since that deck has an Ekos2 fitted and a Timestep PSU, I can't pinpoint the influence of the bearing. It certainly sounds better, in hi-fi terms, than my other stock SL1200's. I'm not sure it's much more musical. I think I would need to do a direct a/b comparison to offer a fair assessment, and that's why I don't have much to say on this subject.
BTW, since there are two Richards being mentioned on this thread it might disambiguate if people were to refer to me as sonddek.
Recently, I decided to re-instal the on/off switching (mains) on my 1210 to make life easier for myself. Now I have been using the Time Step HE supply; to give this titchy little box its full title, the 'Time Step HE Low noise power supply', thats what is says on the can. This PSU comes with a generous length of DC cable, too much for my requirement, so I decided to peel back the nylon mesh encasing the lead to enable me to aquire suitable lengths for solder purposes and to avoid too many solder joins. I was very pleasantly surprised that Dave Cawley, or whoever made the box, had used Van Damme cable (this I like). To be exact (bordering on being pedantic) the cable is Van Damme 268-012-060 Classic Instrument cable AM noise rejecting LAP spiral screen ultra pure SPO FC conductors so a pat on the back Master Cawley, you did tell me it was a good'un. This DC lead is connected to the PSU by a Female to Male locking collar DIN plug with pin No3 being hot (+VE DC) and pin No1 being cold (-VE DC) pins 2 and 4 are vacant, I checked it out with a Multimeter. This will make life easier (which in my dotage, I require). Is my TS HE DC lead sympatico with a Paul Hynes or Vanatge Audio unit to enable easy auditioning... is there a possibility there? I don't really want to de-solder and then re-solder again if I can help it. Is there anyone out there clued up on these matters??? :)
Incidently, I'm quite content with my connected TS HE but I'm also a curious old cove and if something is substantially better and has been proved to be then I'm all ears etc?
Ta muchly
:cocktail: Ron
Keep posted I may be getting a SR7 from paul, the SR5's bigger brother :eyebrows: When i have some time i'm gonna write a comparison of the two.