Of all the changes youve made Marco, which one would you say had the most dramatic impact. The one change which made you realize the Techy was good but just got a whole lot better?
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Of all the changes youve made Marco, which one would you say had the most dramatic impact. The one change which made you realize the Techy was good but just got a whole lot better?
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Would this count?Originally Posted by DSJR
One day, someone with some respect and money on here, is going to buy an SP10 and do serious upgrades to it. I still think it's the better deck potentially and ripe for further refinement
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Nicely done sir
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Hi Dom,
Yes, in terms of fitting a top-notch plinth...
But if you've done nothing to address the 40-year old electronics inside (much of which, especially in 'knackered' ex-broadcast units, will be well past its sell-by date) then there's still plenty more work to do!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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I will concentrate on the plinths and carts Marco, got enough on my plate with that!
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Hi Colin,
That's a difficult one, because there are many things I've done to my Techy which has fundamentally improved its sound.
I think if I were to single out one thing, it would be the first time I added a Paul Hynes off-board PSU. I was using a Timestep one at the time, and then heard Shuggie's SR3, which completely blew the Timestep away. Quite simply, the latter made the Techy sound limp, 2-dimentional, and just boring in comparison.
That one was quite a seminal moment in my appreciation of just how good the Techy could get, when a 'beefier' over-specified PSU was used, other than that which 'the guru' from Dartmouth had deemed as being 'plenty'
But I'd say that it is the combination of upgrading the stock bearing and platter, for something significantly better (choose whichever available products you wish) that really makes the Techy finally 'grow up' and become a serious high-end contender!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Good to know, cheers Marco.
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I know this is slightly off topic but if anyone with an SP10 wants a high performance power supply for it I would be happy to oblige.
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Paul
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High Performance Power Supply upgrades
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=16655
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What would be good to investigate is how the electronics on the deck itself have aged as marco has said. maybe they haven't - the bearing is supposed to take years of 24/7 operation I believe..
I can't go on and I can't go back, I don't feel so matter of fact,
I tried and tried to make good sense, What's the good to try it all again?
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Just a quick question , Marco or Martin but what is the approx weight of the
funk platter with magnet attached ?
Chris
We've gone on holiday by mistake !
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