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    Marco,
    I am from the colonies!! Sydney, OZ, although I was born and went to school in Reading. I worked for Crosfield Electronics in North London back in the early 60s who sent me out here in 1961 as a computer field engineer, I liked it so much that when I finished travelling around the world, including two more trips to OZ, I got married and settled here. It was only after my wife died of the big C that my interest in Jazz and classical was re activated and I started to look at how my own SL1200 could be improved. The rest I guess is to the advantage of all of you who seem to agree that my efforts were worth while.

    I do not make the very high precision spindles. These are made for me by a Tool and Gauge making company who are both ISO 9001/2004 certified and are also NATA certified test Lab for Aerospace and medical work.

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    Join Date: Nov 2008

    Location: Dartmouth in beautiful Devon UK

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    Hi Marco

    Hope you are reading this!

    Local politics means I HAVE to be at a meeting at 6:00, no question. So could you come earlier, or you could come to the meeting, if you think thread drift is bad, you will be amazed, a pizza in the DA afterwards?

    Regards

    Dave

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    Lol - just about to leave, Dave. No worries - sounds good to me!

    Laters,
    Marco.
    Main System

    Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.

    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.

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    Hi Marco

    I'm sure every monotonous motorway mile will be rewarded with marvelously melodious music bach at Marco mansions....

    Mike,

    You're going to love the V, there seems (to me at least) to be a certain synergy between the Techie and SME arms, can't explain it there is a rightness to the sound, maybe it is in the decks' DNA, after all the original 70's decks were supplied with armboards precut for the 3009 were they not?

    Cheers

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    Hi Ralph

    You really shouldn't say things like that ' you will have me lusting after a 309 ' i used to have the 10 inch version on my Voyd now gone

    Both the techie and SME share the same elegant engineering principles ' have i said that right ' .
    Chris

    We've gone on holiday by mistake !

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    Quote Originally Posted by REM View Post
    You're going to love the V, there seems (to me at least) to be a certain synergy between the Techie and SME arms
    Ralph, I wish you wouldn't say that either as I seriously miss my SME IV which I stupidly sold with my Roksan Xerxes years ago. They also match AT cartridges rather well. I'm getting tempted and I may just contact Dave C about one soon.

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    Right that's it ' not playing any more

    Seriously Martin if you can do it ' why not treat yourself

    And i may or may not be interested in your 250st
    Chris

    We've gone on holiday by mistake !

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    Quote Originally Posted by chris@panteg View Post
    And i may or may not be interested in your 250st
    Damn - don't give me extra reasons, man!

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    Smile

    I do goooood deals on SME!

    DAve

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    Martin i can see it now ' you ' glass of wine in hand ' your favorite record sat on the Techie ' and fitted to it a lovely spanking new series IV mmm ' suit you sir ' .
    Chris

    We've gone on holiday by mistake !

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