Calling all SL-1200/1210 owners!

[dmckean]

Hi Dave,

Long time no hear! Good to see you here, so welcome to the forum

Marco.

Thanks Marco, it's a great forum and I've been busy reading the backlog of posts the last several days. I've found a lot of great posts and interesting tidbits in every thread.

[Marco]

Hi Dave,

Thanks. We do our best to try to keep things interesting. We've still got a long way to go though before we get to the standard of Audiocircle

How is the place these days? I haven't been there in ages.

Please feel free to impart your knowledge on all subjects, especially on the 1210 as I know you have fairly extensive experience in that area.

Marco.

[dmckean]

Hi Dave,

Thanks. We do our best to try to keep things interesting. We've still got a long way to go though before we get to the standard of Audiocircle

How is the place these days? I haven't been there in ages.

Please feel free to impart your knowledge on all subjects, especially on the 1210 as I know you have fairly extensive experience in that area.

Marco.

Audio Circle just has more members, this place will get there in time. I really haven't been reading the forums for the past 8 months but it seems the number of guys using the Technics has exploded in that time. I can't wait to see yours in a slate plinth.

--Dave

[muffinman]

My ps1200 and Cardas arm have arrived. Once the govt. had taken their slice it came in at £340. i'm going to take a few snaps and send them to J7 to see how he feels about putting an ext lead on and what configuration it will take.If i manage to shift the old arm then i may keep the all in final cost below £400. I'm going on holiday on friday so it's just going to sit there in its box. i'm a little reticent because my standac has recently been blowing me away and thats about to be upgraded.
watch this space for the review.

[Marco]

Nice one, mate

When you get things together and assess them properly start a thread 'Mufty's KAB madness', or whatever, and tell us all about it, with photos.

Have a nice holiday!

Marco.

[Peter Stockwell]

Mine's in it's box, stashed uder the bed. The decorators are finally at work! Taking the arm off, since I'd not done it before, was something I wanted to leave until I had a while day with nothing else to do.

So the arm project is still on hold, might even have to wait until 2009!

I was lucky with my PS1200/Cardas rewire buy, I got the exchange when the dollar was worth about 0.60€.

cheers

[Marco]

Hi Peter,

Good to see you back! I thought you'd deserted us

I guess that your hi-fi activities are somewhat curtailed at the moment...

Marco.

[Dave Cawley]

Hi guys

This might be a subtle opportunity to plug my SL-1200 page here www.SL-1200-MK2.com I can give sound reasons for every modification and answer most questions with a smile!

I'll start a thread on it next week.

Regards

Dave

[Peter Stockwell]

Hi Peter,

Good to see you back! I thought you'd deserted us

I guess that your hi-fi activities are somewhat curtailed at the moment...

Marco.

No, I've just been busy, I also found a new diversion for quiet moments when I can't listen to music. If you're interested at all in boats, I'll point to it. The system was completely dismantled sunday last, and while I still have the TV system set up, and I can connect the mac mini, directly to the Beresford and then to the TV system. It's just not musically involving in comparison, not even close.

I haven't deserted, I just might be quiet for a while.

[bong]

Hi folks,

been lurking here for a while, just absorbing all of your experiences with the 1200/1210. I'm also the proud owner of a 1210mkII (15 year old), and after reading the glowing opinions here (and there and everywhere...) of the KABed 1200, i've decided to get my own. After a short chat with Kevin (great guy!) via email, a KABed 1200 should be on its way to me in a couple of weeks.

Marco, thanks for your many opinions on the 'table. I noticed that you've gotten a new Jelco arm. Are you going to post a review, and why you've changed? is the Jelco a rega derivative, and so use the rega armboard, otherwise how are you mounting the jelco arm on?

I'm using the 103 currently, and with the stock technics arm and headshell, there's not quite enough mass to match the compliance. I've resorted to sticking a small coin on the headshell. Anything heavier, and the stock counterweight won't be able to balance. Also, I'm a bit concerned about putting too much weight on one spot, as opposed to spreading the weight along the arm. I'll try and get a picture of the coin-modded 103 here when I get home.

For the brass counterweight that I've heard so much about, It's a screw on right? What is the mass of the counterweight? I recall that it's in 3 pieces, so how much weight does it bring to the tonearm?

one other thing, about the mats. I've read quite a bit here also about the various mats and experiences using them. I'm currently using the 5mm funk achromat, and because it's about the same thickness as the stock rubber mat, i didn't make any compensation to the arm height. But if you stack the herbie (3mm? 5mm?) with the funk mat (5mm), it goes up quite a bit, and do you adjust the arm height accordingly to keep the arm parallel? I'm still quite a novice at the VTA adjustments.

Quite a bit to read for a first post, but I'm quite excited about my incoming, and just want to keep this excellent thread going for a great 'table.