Timestep psu for the SL1200

[jonners]

You are John, but I'd be just the same tbh.

Great. I'll take pedantry a bit further on: An pitch increase from 440 to 442 is just over 0.4%. A speed increase of 0.4% will make a 20min. LP side about six seconds shorter. Hell, you're losing out on twelve seconds of pleasure per LP!!
John

Edit: More accurate calculations give loss of 10.9 secs per LP. Not quite as bad as I thought!

[Gromit]

More like, I know what I meant

That's the one Peter!!

[Gromit]

Great. I'll take pedantry a bit further on: An pitch increase from 440 to 442 is just over 0.4%. A speed increase of 0.4% will make a 20min. LP side about six seconds shorter. Hell, you're losing out on twelve seconds of pleasure per LP!!
John

Edit: More accurate calculations give loss of 10.9 secs per LP. Not quite as bad as I thought!

Quality post!!

(ever felt the need to get out more John??)

[jonners]

(ever felt the need to get out more John??)

Good advice. I'll go and take a walk in the snow. I may be gone some time.....

Johmn

[Gromit]

It's here - time to dig out the soldering iron.

[chris@panteg]

OK a quick update

Not had a chance to listen during the week, but did some more listening today,

Patricia Barber Companion

Marvin Gaye What's going on

Jacintha the look of love 12' single

Siouxsie and the banshees peep show

After hearing these few album's i would say the timestep is not a subtle difference it is a jaw to the floor upgrade, the extra clarity' much more depth'
fluid bass lines and incredible low level detail.

One point i need to make is this is not your typical romantic vinyl sound,
it sounds utterly neutral.

The timestep is IMHO an even bigger upgrade than the lingo was for the lp12.

Well done to Dave Cawley

if you have a 1200 you just have to get one of these' find the cash somehow.

[Marco]

Nice one, Chris

Adding a high quality PSU to the Techy is a no-brainer upgrade and is essential in order for the deck to achieve its full potential, which as you know is quite considerable!

At some point I must do a back to back comparison between the Time Step and the PS-1200.

Enjoy!

Marco.

[chris@panteg]

Thanks Marco

Yes indeed ' you know its difficult for me to put into words just how much better
this is but put simply its just come to life and sounds so together.

[Gromit]

Well done to Dave Cawley
if you have a 1200 you just have to get one of these' find the cash somehow.

Totally agree Chris - I was >this< close to selling my 1210 on before I got the Time Step, simply because it just sounded so uninvolving, lacking real direction/momentum/rhythmic realism. Adding the psu saw an immediate improvement (basically wiped out these negative observations at a stroke) and improved over its first 48 hours to where it has now flattened off.

If you have any plans at all to do just one upgrade to the 1210, for heaven's sake get the psu sorted. A total outlay for a new 1210 & TimeStep would be around £650 which is a joke for something this good. Then decide what you want to do re arms etc. The old adage of 'the turntable (ie the bit that goes round) is the most important bit in the chain' rings true here, no argument IMO.

I'm running mine now with the Lyra Dorian in the std arm (which on the surface of it seems like total overkill, but it really does work!) and it sounds just fabulous.

If I end up selling the 1210 at least I'll now know what can be done, for a relatively small outlay, to turn it into something that plays music properly.

[Marco]

Great stuff, Richard. It's really a joy to hear you saying that given, as you say, how close you were to selling it...

In my experience the quality of the PSU in any piece of hi-fi equipment is fundamentally the most important thing - everything else follows on from that.

It's interesting though how well the Dorian seems to be performing in the stock arm. I thought this was up at Johnnie's being 'pimped' or have you changed your mind on that one?

Do you know which deck yet you're bringing to the show? Please say the Pioneer as I'd love to hear it!

Marco.