My Thorens TD 124 Mk1 - restoration project

[Virtual-Symmetry]

Nice.Good decision changing arms

Loverly things TD124's.. If i ever did do down the vintage Route again it would be a SPATA 'GT-12' motor unit with Syntec 'S-220'

http://www.audiovintage.fr/leforum/v...41597&start=20

[montesquieu]

Nice.Good decision changing arms

Loverly things TD124's.. If i ever did do down the vintage Route again it would be a SPATA 'GT-12' motor unit with Syntec 'S-220'

http://www.audiovintage.fr/leforum/v...41597&start=20

Missed this thread. Very nice indeed.

BTW totally concur with Barry, Hugo and Josie at the front of the thread on idler wheels, the Italian Audiosilente one is very noisy indeed, I went back to my original in short order. I think he's taking the piss quite frankly selling this as an 'improvement'.

Stax arm looks the business and as it's a proper high mass arm, very likely a much better match compliance-wise for the 103 .. I would expect it to sound ace and rather better than the Audiomods.

[eu_73]

A better picture with the new tonearm



In the next days I'll do some test trying to use again the aluminium upper platter, with some mods to have a better coupling with the iron platter when the lp is playing.

[eu_73]

Some presents for my TD 124.

The first one will be matched with the Lyra Delos



while the second one will be matched with the Benz Reference



To try to make it similar to the cartridge I painted the headshell giving it a brier root-like effect
... and this is the final result

[eu_73]

The lastest news are:
- Stax tonearm has got a new carbon arm, so now it is a UA-7 CF :-)
- a new Thorens clamp
- it has been installed again the original aluminium sub platter







... and also a new cart! :-)

[walpurgis]

That looks beautiful!

[The Black Adder]

+1

A very nice example.

[eu_73]

Thank you to Geoff and Josie :-)

[petrat]

Lovely turntable .. what the Americans call a heritage item, I believe (meaning it gets put in the will).

How are you getting on with the cartridge? I had the Spirit for years, and only changed because I wore it out. I'm a huge fan of Transfig cartridges. Will probably go back to one some day.

[eu_73]

Lovely turntable .. what the Americans call a heritage item, I believe (meaning it gets put in the will).

How are you getting on with the cartridge? I had the Spirit for years, and only changed because I wore it out. I'm a huge fan of Transfig cartridges. Will probably go back to one some day.

Thank you Peter :-)

I really like the Spirit. Compared to my Lyra Delos, that i like too, it is a bit less rich in high frequencies but is better in low range. And in my opinion it has a more natural / relaxed approach to Music, while the Lyra is more on the hi-fi side. I hope you will understand what I mean