JVC TT-71 and Jelco SA-750L
I finished building this deck in December 2016 and has been totally reliable in that time. The vintage direct drive turntable unit is the JVC TT-7 and has worked faultlessly. It runs silently and the touch sensitive controls are a joy to use. Speeds at 45 and 33 run spot on. Cosmetically it is in very good condition with only one or two tiny marks on very close inspection. It came from a JVC QL-7 turntable which I bought with the intention of replinthing.
I made the plinth using Delignit MU25 a beech ply similar to Panzerholz in construction but compressed by 20% instead of Panzerholz's 50%.
It is a dIY effort so is not perfect but is very presentable. If you don't like the colour or chrome it would be relatively easy to modify.
Between the 3 layers of MU25 are layers of standard birch ply, the whole thing being glued and screwed together. I used non-setting Green Glue (https://www.greengluecompany.com/) so you could remove the birch ply and the chrome inserts if required.
The tonearm is Jelco's 12" SA-750L with a few extras. Jelco don't supply a cable so this comes with an Audioquest Wildcat 1.5m tonearm cable. As well as the standard counterweight I'll include the heavy counterweight and Ammonite's extended mounting collar which provides more stability than the standard one provided by Jelco. This amounts to about £190 of worthwhile extras.
I would like £750 for the complete deck. Given the weight and bulk it's collection only from GL6. I will consider offers for the TT-71 unit and the Jelco arm without plinth if noone wants the whole thing. These could be posted.
Thanks for looking.
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with the original plinth and lid in (still) superb condition, and the usual droop to the original UA-5045 tonearm. A very capable deck, your build must have taken the TT-71 drive at least a couple steps higher.
