Revised Mike New platter for SL-1200/1210

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Your copper amp Marco? What are you using inthe mean while? If had had known I would have happily leant you mine as a stand in...
.... It looks as though I might .... MIGHT.... Be able to keep the thing

[The Vinyl Adventure]

I can see photos btw

[chris@panteg]

Hi Marco

Yep ' though its gone again !

I'm using Mozila , maybe that's it ?

[Marco]

Could be, mate. Can you try it with Internet Explorer?

Marco.

[Marco]

Hi Hamish,

Your copper amp Marco? What are you using inthe mean while? If had had known I would have happily leant you mine as a stand in...
.... It looks as though I might .... MIGHT.... Be able to keep the thing

That's great news, mate, and thanks for the offer of a loan!

I've been using my headphone amp and headphones, which are decent enough, so I've not been without music.

It's actually been quite interesting listening that way for an extended period, as it's a rather different presentation from the copper amp/Lockwoods combo, and actually VERY revealing of what the sources and preamp are doing.

It's also a pretty good way of testing things such as cables and valves, as the headphone amp/phones combo is pretty transparent and revealing....

What happened with the copper amp is that one of the GEC KT88s (originally fittted to the amp in 1998! ) finally went pop and took out the mains transformer with it! It's all fun, I guess, although the bloody smell from the melted tranny wasn't!

So, Anthony ordered a new hand-wound bespoke transformer from Sowter, but this time a bigger one of a higher capacity, so the end result is that he's managed to get an extra 10W of Class A from the amp, and it's now kicking out 40 WPC of pure Class A, which into 95db huge speakers with 15" drivers is rather rude...lol.

The copper amp wasn't exactly lacking in 'grunt' before, so I'm expecting it to be a real animal now!!

And that's not all.... I'm also getting a brand new (unused apart from testing) matched quad of NOS GEC KT88s to fit in it! So, I can't wait to hear what it's going to sound like. I'm picking it up from Anthony on Monday

Then it'll be platter time - so plenty of exciting times ahead, chez-moi!

Marco.

[JazzBones]

Marco,
Thats one helluva beaut looking platter . Looks like the copper is bonded to the ali, if not are the two metals bolted and would there be any need for the neoprene rubber belt on the rim to negate platter ringing? The rubber belt is the only visual aspect of the platter I don't like, it reminds me of those heavy duty rubber belts on rim used by belt driven TT, but hey thatsa me. To me, one of the visual aspects that is attractive about the Tekko is that strobe edge. If the copper/ali works better than the standard MN platter, and depending on cost, I'll order one.

Keep us up to date and informed please. Shouldn't really ask that as I am sure you will.

Ron

[John]

I see it now looks great, looking forward to reading about how it will sound Mike really done a good job with the bonding

[freem]

Hi Hamish,



That's great news, mate, and thanks for the offer of a loan!

I've been using my headphone amp and headphones, which are decent enough, so I've not been without music.

It's actually been quite interesting listening that way for an extended period, as it's a very different presentation from the copper amp/Lockwoods combo, and actually VERY revealing of what the sources and preamp are doing.

It's also a pretty good way of testing things such as cables and valves, as the headphone amp/phones combo is pretty transparent and revealing....

What happened with the copper amp is that one of the GEC KT88s (originally fittted to the amp in 1998! ) finally went pop and took out the mains transformer with it! It's all fun, I guess, although the bloody smell wasn't!

So, Anthony ordered a new hand-wound bespoke transformer from Sowter, but this time a bigger one of a higher capacity, so the end result is that he's managed to get an extra 10W of Class A from the amp, and it's now kicking out 40 WPC of pure Class A... Yee-ha!

The copper amp wasn't exactly lacking in 'grunt' before, so I'm expecting it to be a real animal now!!

And that's not all.... I'm also getting a brand new (unused apart from testing) matched quad of NOS GEC KT88s to fit in it! So, I can't wait to hear what it's going to sound like. I'm picking it up from Anthony on Monday

Then it'll be platter time - so plenty of exciting times ahead, chez-moi!

Marco.

Marco

What headphone amp do you use with your AKG's.

[Marco]

Hi Paul,

A tiny and (fairly inexpensive) little thing called a Practical Devices XM5 - see here:

http://www.practicaldevices.com/

It doesn't look much, but it's remarkably neutral and transparent sounding!

Marco.