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I remember playing with the older formulation compressed air cans in the camera shop where a buddy worked back in the mid 90s. Shake it hard enough and spray close enough to the glass counter top and you could see ice crystals form around it like a snowflake pattern.

While I am a convert to my motorised air blower (being soooo much more powerful than the cans) I still use the cans for other quick things. The new formulations seem to avoid both freezing and vapor condensation.

From a distance ,not close up.

Honestly!

Thought it was time for some more imagery here?

So as posted elsewhere I bought this SL100C last November in a Black Friday sale. For context a pair of Shawline DIN-XLR interconnects cost more! I bought the Stageline off fleabay and added a half decent cartridge.

I was only really thinking that I would experiment with vinyl and dig out my old 80s/90s stuff (boxed up for over 30 years); selling the Technics on if I didn’t like it; not losing much in the process.

Well I have to say I’m hooked. It sounds incredible for the relatively small outlay. Wish the Stageline had a bit more gain but I guess that’s what the volume knob is for. Been scouring record shops; buying online etc. The collection is slowly growing.

I was planning on upgrading my streamer in the next 3-4 months and I’m listening to a NSS333 vs NDX2 in a couple of weeks but my NDX has been sat idle for the last few weeks. I’m now wondering whether to go ‘all in’ and upgrade the TT instead - the SL1200G is a thing of beauty in my eyes. Where does it end though???

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That’s unusually restrained for a Technics TT, because normally they’re covered in sliders, switches and other fripperies. And it looks much better as a result of that restraint.

I would go so far as to call it a classic design.

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Yes it’s a more basic model , but I suspect none the worse for that

This is a newer version. Last year there were some Technics TTs in outrageous colours , not dissimilar and I wish had pandered to my desire for one

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Henry Ford would have had something to say about that!

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Like this

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I could never get away with that in the living room; and despite my latent DJ tendencies I prefer the black…

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I live alone… maybe these tendencies explain it

The day this turns up on the Naim forum … in an actual system

I’ll be a very happy man

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I nearly bought a blue one…:face_with_peeking_eye:

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How is this for a blast from the past. The turntable and Shure V15 Mk 3 cartridge sound wonderful. Both are approximately fifty years old.

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Tempted…

I was recently almost turned by one of the restored Thorens offered by a German co.

Other designs and colours are available.

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That is gorgeous , an SME arm as well .

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Now that is rather handsome😊

Quite gruesome!

That’s very stylish, although I would choose a different colour for the plinth. It would be interesting to mount a similar SME in a basic Linn LP12 to compare the two.

Does anyone know how much this deck costs?

I had a Thorens TD 160S when I was at University, with a Mission 774 tonearm and Ortofon MC 20 cartridge.

This one seems to be a whole class above that, with a refurbished (I assume) SME tonearm.

1800 ish UK pounds.

That seems a very fair price indeed.

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Hope this helps :wink:

DV 10x5, Graham Slee stage, sounds great 8)

Your SL looks awesome, I bet it would take a better cartridge and phono stage, without getting into the GR or G. Or R :wink:

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