Calling all SL-1200/1210 owners!

[Mike]

And that would be the SL-120, I presume?

Or Lenco GL75... Winner takes all!

[Mike]

P.S. Why do people bid like this? :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Denon-DL-160-H...QQcmdZViewItem

You can buy a brand new one for less than £80!

Now it's just silly, check this out:

http://www.hifix.co.uk/sku_list.lass...d=&major_id=29

Price includes VAT & delivery

Some people eh?

[Mike]

That is just what most manufacturers do, what is original

Anyway for that you have another challenge, seeing as you haven't decided on which cartridge yet it will come sans input res and comp and sans gain res, so you can have the pleasure of working it out when you decide which cartridge you are going to use. BUT I am alway here for you young sprog mi lad, as long as there is a little deference to your Jedi master, we can get there together.

And there will be lots of celebration and

It has arrived quickly, ta!

Hmmmm, I have questions.......

Only time for one at the moment though. Are the dry joints on the reg board's C3 another little test?

[WikiBoy]

It has arrived quickly, ta!

Hmmmm, I have questions.......

Only time for one at the moment though. Are the dry joints on the reg board's C3 another little test?

I sub the pcb boards assembly to an outwork company. I will moan at them for you. I obviously check the ones I use, but this is your project so get on with it, moany git.

PS the new avatar is to denote our new found relationship, so watch out for that plug - meep! meep! meep!

[Mike]

Not moaning grumpy git!

Anyone who buys 'bare bones' stuff to fit themselves won't be bothered by something that simple, and that includes me!

Just 'bantering' in good humour!

Anyway.... I'll start a new thread to continue this sometime soon and delete some of this 'Mike & Richards bantering room' stuff to allow the thread to at least look like it's on topic.Unless anyone would like it to remain 'as is'?

'Later' folk's, I've got some serious cooking to do, a nice Kashmiri Rogan Josh doesn't cook itself you know!

ta ta for now.

[WikiBoy]

Anyway back on topic

I have just taken delivery of an ex DJ 1210.

It will be a little fun project in my quiet times (if I ever get any). I will mod and rebuild it using principles and things learned in the design of the NVA senior T/T (never to be made again) dating from 1990. But sorry they will be my secret

[scoobs]

C'mon Richard, get those hands in the air and kick up a fierce one!



Excellent, this is very exciting indeed, as it appears that no one else in the UK has really put their hand up and had a bash at one these sleeping giants. I know this is Kevin's (KAB) fear, but I guess it had to happen sometime.

I'm sure a few of us on here will be very interested in your findings.

[Marco]

Yes, Richard, do let us know how you get on

Are you retaining the stock arm?

You *might* even manage to report on your findings before I get round to writing my review!

Nicky boy,

I took delivery today of one of Thruno's '3-piece suite' brass counterweight balances. It's excellent, but you're lucky you have that extra weight on top of your nude 103 Pro because if I use all three brass weights I can only get 2.1g VTF with my Denon, and that's with all three counteweights pushed as far forward towards the pivot point as possible...

I'll dick around a bit at the weekend and add a touch more mass at the headshell to enable me to use all three counterweights, and thus allow me to position them ideally (as close to the pivot point) as possible, and obtain the correct VTF. I usually find 2.6g ideal.

I just thought I would report on this

Marco.

[WikiBoy]

C'mon Richard, get those hands in the air and kick up a fierce one!



Excellent, this is very exciting indeed, as it appears that no one else in the UK has really put their hand up and had a bash at one these sleeping giants. I know this is Kevin's (KAB) fear, but I guess it had to happen sometime.

I'm sure a few of us on here will be very interested in your findings.

Its my fun so

Anyway I wont be competing so much with things he does, my forte is power supply design. Though I will obviously play with other things. What I want to work on is that the power system is almost digital, it is a series of on and offs, and the more on and off the better as they use in lathe drive. I have ideas to simulate a greater number of poles in how the motor is driven. Also the motor needs very much lower impedance feed. There is still backlash in the motor.

I have just finished my last bit of fun / project of taking the cheapest CD player you can find on ebay, originally sold by Richer Sound - the Eclipse CD101 - you can get them on ebay for about a tenner - and rebuilding it with killer powers supplies and some component changes and it makes a CD player to kill for. It just happens to have one of the best sounding transports ever made and is extremely long lived and reliable. Anyway now it no longer has a mains lead but has a seperate PSU box or two seperate box PSU's depending on how far you take the mods. I have surepticiously bought 10 of them on ebay over the last 6 months, so keeping a couple for myself there will be 8 going up on ebay at some stage.

C'mon all you amateur techies. Buy some of the cheapest **** you can find on ebay and have fun. It is the techie version of Jerry

[scoobs]

Marco, yes lovely pieces aren't they. It was a bit of guesswork really, but luckily it works out fine for me. I'm not butted right up against the pivot, but pretty close.

I havent spun any vinyl for 7 weeks now, the chap building my pre has had family illness problems and is running a month late. I'm beginning to climb the walls. My Quad actives are much better now they run from dvd player rather than ipod, the same chap is going to mod these too in the near future, so I should have an excellent system by the summer.