New Paul Hynes SR5 Power Supply

[Ali Tait]

Who cares? It's how it sounds that matters. Anyway, I think it looks pretty good.

[MCRU]

What about the Wife Acceptability Factor (WAF) that has to play a major part for a lot of us! Plus its too bloody expensive! Anyone got one they can lend me for a trial then?

[Ali Tait]

If you've already got the deck sitting in your living room, how much difference is the arm sitting on it going to make?

Expensive? Perhaps, but from the times I've heard it, It's a bargain at the price IMHO.

[MCRU]

If you've already got the deck sitting in your living room, how much difference is the arm sitting on it going to make?

Expensive? Perhaps, but from the times I've heard it, It's a bargain at the price IMHO.

It's in my workshop so I suppose it dunt matter what it looks like, fair point, would rather have an SME though

[MartinT]

The TecnoArm looks pretty good on it, David.

[MCRU]

The TecnoArm looks pretty good on it, David.

It's the biz mate, only problem the lid won't go on as the weight at the back sticks out too much!

Hopefully I have an SME lined up and intend to out the TecnoArm on my new Garrard 401 with slate plinth, what say you?

[Alex_UK]

It's the biz mate, only problem the lid won't go on as the weight at the back sticks out too much!

Hopefully I have an SME lined up and intend to out the TecnoArm on my new Garrard 401 with slate plinth, what say you?

Dunno what Martin says, but I say you've got it pretty bad, dude! I reckon any increased business you've had from joining here has been spent tenfold with our bad influences!

[chris@panteg]

Hi David , knock out a few more of those oyaide's and perhaps a Furutech or two and you will have an SME in no time ' me old china

[Wakefield Turntables]

Guys,
Is there anything else one can do to make these babies sound better, took dust cover off from underneath the platter, wired PSU up with Kimber PBJ cable and earthed to correct point, took out old PSU and mains board, Isonoe feet on, all lights dis-abled, apart from platter and bearing what else is there to do if anything? Ignore arm and cart as that is being investigated. Oh I forgot, fit better mains power lead to PSU and a better fuse (I shit you not it works) , any ideas peeps?

There's a couple of things that i'm trying but still in the process of determining if they have improved the sound of the 1210. The first thing i tried was to isolate the isonon feet even further with 6mm of sorbothane under each foot, i did notice an improvement but it was small. It was when I placed similar amounts of sorbothane under my amp and phonostage that the improvement improved even further still. I noticed that I could "see" further into the record, I could hear the musicians "cueing" up just before they started playing. The biggest surprise came when I listened to Iron Maiden's Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, I'd owned that record over 20 years and for the first time in thousands of plays I heard a passage of rain fall that I had never heard before! You could try and have your technoarm terminated with Eichmann silver bullets rather than the silver coated Michell alternatives (i did this and noticed an increased edge and incision to the music, more visceral, if you like that sort of stuff). Have you tried mains filtration? I should imagine that this is right up your street?? I've made a "sorbothane" bed for the technics PCB to sit on, the idea being that it stops vibrations getting through to the bearing and the PCB itself. I've only just installed this so I have no idea if it works or not, probably not!!! Have you got the VTA, etc set up correctly on your Technoarm?? I looked at my system a few weeks ago and wondered how I could improve it, my answer was to listen to how my system sounded and then fine tune it. My next purchase is going to be the Adjust+ software, this is 249 euros but it works out a lot cheaper than a bearing, platter, power supply replacement. Hope these ideas stimulate you a little (oo-er missus)

[MCRU]

thanks for the comprehensive reply, I am concerned that the vta is not set properly, is there something apart from a ruler and the naked eye to use? also is there anything else on the pcb that can be taken off to improve things? ta