technics tt advice wanted

[The Vinyl Adventure]

yeah s boards rings a bell... that was what i was unsure about... bnc adapters are in place!

are you saying the 0c9 would go on the techy?




i seem to remember noticing someone else on here had an oc9 with one of those stages.. i cant find it now or where i found them for sale but i seem to remember it being about £800 for that partiucular stage

il let you know how i get on with that deck

[Mike]

are you saying the 0c9 would go on the techy?

Yes!

[Mike]

What we need is a good Jap DD bake-off,

I'd be up for a bit of that!

[Marco]

Yep, pfm are having one, with a fruitbox thrown in for good measure (), so why don't we have one, too?

Hamish,

You're not likely to get a cartridge with the Techy, other than perhaps some crap Stanton DJ thing, which will only be fit for the bin. You'll have to fit your OC-9 to the Techy

Regarding A.N.T Audio phono stages, Alex Nitikin, the designer, is a member of the forum, so if you want some info just PM him.

It's unquestionably the best affordable non-valve phono stage I've heard!

Marco.

[Dave Cawley]

I know this is an overt plug, but remarkably it seems Hamish might not have clocked me, click here to see more.

Regards



Dave

[The Vinyl Adventure]

cheers dave, you have just answered a question i forgot to ask my self!

the oc9 will go straight on the standard techy arm will it?

[twelvebears]

Hi Hamish.

I was kind of where you are a few months back (although without such a nice existing deck) when I had a very well sorted and basically mint Manticore Mantra and was just 'DD curious' because our vinyl contained a lot of 12" and 7" singles and changing speed on the Mantra was a pain in the arse.

Before I bought anything I did some snooping and actually came across Dave Cawley's Technics mods section of his Sound HiFi site first. While (at the time) some of the upgrade costs scared me slightly (god knows why, I've spent more that a semi-sorted Techie on speaker cables in the past), it did at least convince me that the deck had serious potential beyond the 'DJ deck' it's normally labeled as.

Some months later, I've got a slightly tweaked deck which outperforms my old Mantra/RB300/GX1042 combo, has still got loads of untapped potential, and which hasn't broken me financially (yet).

I've spent a total of about £600 in addition to the deck itself, which was a brand new Mk5 1210 which had never been assembled but was sold as second-hand because the box had been opened. Cost £325

At the moment my upgrades are:

Audio Origami full rewire, arm tube foam fill and bearing tweak of the standard arm - £140

AT-OC9 from Dave Cawley - £325

Decent mat - £75

Record clamp - £35

Sumiko headshell - £25

So for just under a grand I've got a deck which is not fussy, difficult to live with or use, which sounds pretty damn good, and which still has plenty more to give.

Plus the whole process of getting there has been fun, especially with the generious help of the mob here on AOS.

Oh and before any of that helpful mob say anything, I KNOW I NEED TO STOP SODDING AROUND AND GET A TIMESTEP PSU NEXT!

Steve.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

........... daves the guy with the oc9 and a.n.t ......

slow hamish, realy slow.....

[twelvebears]

Indeed he is Hamish, purveyor of all nice Techie things. :-)

And to answer your previous question, as an easy 1st step (as you have it already) the OC9 will work just fine on the stock arm. I would suggest you at least stump up £25 for a replacement Sumiko headshell. The original is really dire and the Sumiko is a worthwhile improvement.

I've also got a used once AT-MG10 headshell http://www.audiocubes2.com/category/...ead_Shell.html which I just didn't get on with that you could have. Marco's convinced it should be an excellent match for the OC9.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

that sounds like a good idea i guess(what you want for it?), how come you didnt get on with it? marco, can you tell what makes it a good match for the oc9