FS: Technics SL120 TT

[Marco]

LOL. You need some porridge, Mikey! You wanna try lifting my mate's valve amp, which weighs 5 stone, on top of 15 levels of Mana!!

Let us know what you think when you get it out the box...

Good timing, btw - there should be some interesting reading matter for you to digest tomorrow, too

Marco.

[Vinyl Grinder]

15 levels of Mana!!

[Marco]

LOL. Come and listen to it and then see if you think I'm a mental case!

Well I am a mental case...but for entirely different reasons

Marco.

[NRG]

Well!

I'm now the owner of an SL120, one which must have the heaviest plinth in Christendom!

The bits of the deck I can actually see are in damn fine condition, but the rest of it will have to wait for now as can't lift the f*****g thing out of the box!!!

That'll be the lead in the plinth Mike

Yeah, sorry about the tight fit, didn't want it to move around

The plinth is split in two. Remove the wood screws from the bottom and the bottom half, this will give you access to the underside of the deck and the mounting bolts. Try it 'as is' with the wood feet and let us know what you think.....

[hellenic vanagon]

Blind test SL-1200 ORIGINAL VS REGA P3 VS YAMAHA YP-701.


(A photo from the event).

http://www.iavscanada.com/Articles/art_turntable.htm

[DSJR]

Severe acoustic feedback was the 110 and 120 bugbear I remember, as an ex owner of a 110 and knowing the 120 very well indeed (so many mid 70's LP's I bought were first heard via a SL120/SME/V15 III or ADC XLM II). These days, I wonder if changing the mat, removing the 120 lid and careful siting/feet would be enough to transform it as the SL1500 came up hugely set up this way?

[hellenic vanagon]

Severe acoustic feedback was the 110 and 120 bugbear I remember, as an ex owner of a 110 and knowing the 120 very well indeed (so many mid 70's LP's I bought were first heard via a SL120/SME/V15 III or ADC XLM II). These days, I wonder if changing the mat, removing the 120 lid and careful siting/feet would be enough to transform it as the SL1500 came up hugely set up this way?

Here is mine:



(First owner, 20/02/1976 manufactured:

).

Here are some simple measures to defeat acoustic feedback:

1)UHU PATAFIX, (BLUE TAC), for the cavities of the bottom cover.




2)Use of the standard absorbing feet.





3)Playing without dust cover:




4)Riding on air platter:



or




5)Tonearm base on silent blocks:

[hellenic vanagon]

Two prizes for the TECHNICS SL-1200 (ORIGINAL), the one being British.

1973:"London Daily Mail": "Blue Ribbon" Prize for Technics SL-1200 (ORIGINAL),

(same year),

"Good design award" of "Trade & Industry", Japan ministry.



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[NRG]

This is a blast from the past! OK this explains the visitors page message I got about buying my old SL120 ! I sold it to Mike back in 2008