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.
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???
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.
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.