I've always like the looks of the TD160 Super but not quite it's sound.

In isolation it sounds quite reasonable but I’ve always found it lacked fine detail and record surface noise to be on the high side.

The first TD160 Super I originally owned was in 1980 and was fitted with a Rega RB200 arm and Goldring G900igc it was eventually traded it in for a LP12.

About three years ago I came across a NOS one and bought it for £30 it came with ADC tonearm and VMS 20 mk11 cartridge.

I wanted to modify it and I’ve been playing around with stiffening the bearing house to see if the surface noise could be reduced.
My first attempt was a simple wooden collar with steel plates this may a big difference with a reduction in surface noise and restoring some of the missing fine detail.






This was my second solution to stiffen the bearing housing a tight fitting machine collar.





Surface noise was again reduced over the simple wood and metal modification, transient detail seems to be clearer and more fine detail restored.


More mods to follow to the sub chassis and suspension.

Sharif.