Calling all SL-1200/1210 owners!

[Mike]

Cheers!

[Mike]

Right...

I've been threatening to do this for about four months, or thereabouts, so I think the time has come to sit myself down in front of the laptop for an hour or two and write a detailed report on the KAB Technics SL-1210, how it compares to a standard 'DJ' SL-1210, LP12s and other similarly 'revered' belt-drives, and a whole host of other stuff KAB SL-1210 related.

Ok, it *WILL* be ready to read in the 'Strokes of Genius' review section before this weekend!!

I promise it will be controversial and make very interesting reading...

Marco.

I cannot help but notice that time is still passing!!!

Does ANY of this mighty tome actually exist yet???

[StanleyB]

Some things can't be rushed. I packed away a fortune worth of audio equipment the moment my wife said she was pregnant. It took me two decades and the need to do a loft conversion before I finally dug out the bits again. Most people had thought I had got rid if the stuff or had just lied about me ever owning any of it. So Marco might be on the same type of trip.

Out of interest, things that I packed away:
2 x Micro Seiki MA-505 MKI
2 x Technics EPA-501H
1 x Micro Seiki DDX-1000
1 x Ariston RD-40
1 x Sony PS6750
1 x Mitsubishi DA-10

Plus a few dust arms. Since then eBay has enlightened me to the curet day value of all that stuff. Glad I didn't flog them then.

[Marco]

Mike,

Yep, it's half done. I've just got the 'interesting' bits to add

I've got too many things on right now to finish it, but don't worry it'll be posted before your next birthday

I'm also trying to get the Yaqin sorted.

Has your deck 'emerged' yet from its slumber?

Marco.

PS. Sensi, did you read my reply about the EPA-501H?

[StanleyB]

Mike,
PS. Sensi, did you read my reply about the EPA-501H?

I did. Got a few things to take care of, which is taking up space on the same table I use to take pictures. Once that is out of the way I shall do you the shots.

[Mike]

Has your deck 'emerged' yet from its slumber?

I'm sniffing about right now for the best phono stage (and cartridge) I can find for under four hundred quid, which ain't easy!

Once all the necessary bits are in one place, away we go!

[WikiBoy]

I'm sniffing about right now for the best phono stage (and cartridge) I can find for under four hundred quid, which ain't easy!

Once all the necessary bits are in one place, away we go!

Got a box?

Got a tranny with 18-0-18 upward and a couple of caps, 4700mfd will do, and a bridge?

If so then you can buy http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...e=STRK:MESE:IT

It is then upgradable to four seperate power supplies, as is your want.

[Marco]

Sensi,

Nice one. Keep me in the loop

Mike,

Looks like Richard has sorted out the phono stage side of things. For the cartridge do you fancy a coil or an MM jobby, and what type of sound do you like?

I can then recommend some suitable cartridges within your budget

Marco.

[Mike]

Got a box?

Got a tranny with 18-0-18 upward and a couple of caps, 4700mfd will do, and a bridge?

If so then you can buy http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...e=STRK:MESE:IT

It is then upgradable to four seperate power supplies, as is your want.

Interesting!

But could I ask a couple of questions please?

1. Ignoring PSU's for the moment, Is there any difference in circuitry between that board in the link above and the Phono1 and Phono2? (I'd already been looking and they figure in my short list).

2. Would it be possible purchase the board and four PSU's together, and at what price?

3. If I purchased four PSU's I assume it would be preferable to use four separate transformers, bridges etc. Yes?

Cheers,
Mike.

[Mike]

For the cartridge do you fancy a coil or an MM jobby, and what type of sound do you like?

I can then recommend some suitable cartridges within your budget

Marco.

Well, it depends on which phono stage I settle on, but considering present budget constraints I expect to be looking in the MM playground for now.

Sound wise - clean, detailed (but not too 'in yer face'), tight bass - my speakers can be a bit 'full' sounding thanks to twin quarter wave pipes, so nothing to exacerbate that tendency.

Cheers,
Mike.