technics tt advice wanted

[chris@panteg]

Mmmm... I think I'm going to have to differ here slightly regarding the Technics arm.

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Trouble is, after you've paid for all that lot, you're about three quarters of the way to buying a Jelco, which has none of those problems!





Marco.

Marco i believe you are dead right about the arm ' which is why i have only got the Sumiko (£29) and some Van Damme leads (£13) which BTW is a great upgrade on the stock leads 'it did take weeks to burn in though.

But i have no intention of spending anymore on the arm i think Dave said something like ' its just fiddling while Rome burns ' .

I am just going to wait until i can go for the Jelco 750 or maybe the 250st but the 750 i think is the one i want.

[NRG]

neal, please accept my apologees for such a sh1ty message this morning, i was not my usual self and i apreciate you wereonly trying to provide a usefull opinion

No problem. We all have crap days, hope you feel better soon.


Anybody know the best place to buy a Sumiko headshell? Seen it advertised for $50 and also £29...

[twelvebears]

I know Jonny at Audio Origami wasn't completely anti the stock Mk5 arm and he believed the foam fill would help address some of the resonance issues.

The bottom line is that you can tweak it a bit to improve things to a point, but eventually you run into the 'Max Power' situation where getting your Astra to perform anything like a Porsche will cost as much (or more) than just buying the real thing....

That's why I'm saving the money from a KAB damping trough and custom counter weight towards the Terminator arm I ultimately want.

[chris@panteg]

That's why I'm saving the money from a KAB damping trough and custom counter weight towards the Terminator arm I ultimately want.

Now you have got me thinking now blimey it looks very very impressive

http://www.trans-fi.com/terminatortonearm.htm

Listening to my other deck the baby SL5 ' it seems to me there is something right about Linear tracking ' even on this modest turntable background and surface noise for one thing are if anything even quieter than my 1210 and this makes a difference with low level stuff like solo piano etc.

[DSJR]

Some very good advice on here and I think Marco has it pretty well sewn up (I still love MM's and the more delicate MC's, so I'm not so anti the standard arm, but I was surprised how light-weight the arm-pipe is compared to others I've sen and used/sold). A light weight tube can be damped better though with foam fill.

The Jelco's are fine. A shame that the cheapest one is getting on for £400 with cable. Totally out of my league right now unless I can drastically increase my paid hours, or set myself up as a turntable setter-upper as has been suggested.......

[muffinman]

Hi Hamish
I've been watching your thread and would like to direct you to one i made a while ago
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2453

I'd actually like to enforce the point i made in the post that i feel that my deck is now perfect. since the addition of the Terminator and oc9 i've felt no need to fiddle with the support, mat or clamp - it just seems like spending for the sake of it
Given the choice i'd get the arm first as it's such a massive improvement over many other models. mind you, if you were to try it on your own deck, you may not bother with the 12'

[The Vinyl Adventure]

that terminator is about the single coolest hifi related thing i have ever seen... well done

here is my plan as it currently stands id be interested if anyone thinks this is the wrong way of doing things

buy deck and put on my oc9 on

sit with it for a few weeks and see how i feel about it at that stage

if i feel the project, for me, has legs im going to start with that time step psu

taking in to account the astra vs porche analogy .... then i will have a think about and get advice on what new arm to get (i want a terminator now but thats only coz it looks cool which is probably not the best basis for such investment)

in the mean while i can tweak things like mats and support if anything comes up that might work out a good deal

[REM]

Hamish

Have you seen this one

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Technics-SL-12...3%3A1|294%3A50

could be tricky trying to get it coz there's already 11 bids on it and still 3 days to go but as it has the AO re-wire it should be worth a punt.
HTH

[MartinT]

The Jelco's are fine. A shame that the cheapest one is getting on for £400 with cable.

Putting it into perspective, I paid about that for a Michell TecnoArm. The Jelco in comparison is on another level. I know that sounds like hi-fi reviewer speak, but I do own both arms and the comparison does not favour the Rega-based arm.

[Ammonite Audio]

Martin

A bit OT, but I've just notice your equipment list, and particularly:

Underwood-modded PS Audio GCPH

I have a GCPH and am very happy with it, but always interested in the odd tweak. What sort of modification does this involve?

Cheers

Shuggie