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[Sal1950]

Very cool. The tonearm can be changed out.

Yep, I had 2 so I could keep a MC and MM cartridge all setup inc track weight, etc.
I could change the arm in 30 seconds and be ready to go with a push of a button on the MC amp.

 

[Doodski]

Yep, I had 2 so I could keep a MC and MM cartridge all setup inc track weight, etc.
I could change the arm in 30 seconds and be ready to go with a push of a button on the MC amp.

Yes, very nice. That P-mount was a limiting factor in the Technics. I never saw a MC ever for them.

 

[UCrazyKid]

Boulder Audio

and
Jeff Rowland Design Group (JRDG)

 

[caught gesture]

I very much like the classic Italian design of my integrated amplifier.

 

[Emulator II]

Yes, very nice. That P-mount was a limiting factor in the Technics. I never saw a MC ever for them.

You could buy quality T4P MC cartridges from Technics for a couple of years. This is from a german Technics catalogue from 1988:

 

[Doodski]

You could buy quality T4P MC cartridges from Technics for a couple of years. This is from a german Technics catalogue from 1988:

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Nice. Thanks for the heads up on the MC product. Here in Canada we had limited access from what I was advised when we where selling Technics linear trackers like hotcakes. I asked for MC cartridges but my boss of the time said none where available so I ran with that.

 

[Emulator II]

As far as I know, only certain markets outside Japan were supplied by Technics/Matsushita with a nearly complete range of products. Germany was one of them.

 

[Doodski]

As far as I know, only certain markets outside Japan were supplied by Technics/Matsushita with a nearly complete range of products. Germany was one of them.

Yes, I kinda figured that. We would see all the high end Technics stereo gear and drool and none of it was on the Canadian Price lists. Kind of a shame because Technics was making some pretty nice higher end gear at the time.

 

[Emulator II]

Oh yes, they did :

 

[Doodski]

Oh yes, they did :

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Gorgeous gear and I wish I had seen more of it than magazine articles and such. The closest that we got to the higher end Technics was selling a couple of the SL-P1200 CD players to a DJ. He loved them.

 

[Angsty]

is it beautiful? im not sure. It is certainly interesting.

Not to my eye. For horns, I’d rather go for these La Scalas with rosewood veneer. Oh la la!l

Edited: Earlier post said “redwood” instead of “rosewood”.

 

[Doodski]

Not to my eye. For horns, I’d rather go for these La Scalas with redwood veneer. Oh la la!l
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Those La Scalas are very nice and the wood is exceptional. Myself I like that industrial raw look of bare horns and compression drivers displayed in the room. I've been there and done the horn thing for some years and I must admit they had the most impactful, live sounding and detailed midrange that I've owned and heard.

 

[Robin L]

WITH A P-MOUNT!

 

[Sal1950]

Not to my eye. For horns, I’d rather go for these La Scalas with redwood veneer. Oh la la!l

The Klipsch cabinet department in Hope AK does some amazing woodwork.
Outstanding American craftsmanship!

 

[Kal Rubinson]

Not my cup of tea, direct drive and all that.
My last table that I used for 20 some years was a Harman Kardon ST-8 with the Rabco design straight line arm.
The earlier ST7 and such had issues and were quite buggy.
They got it right with the ST8 and it had the bits I desired. (SLT arm, belt drive, cue lever, auto end of record pickup, etc)
Here's the ebay pictures I sold it with, probably should have just kept it, but all it did for the last 10 years or more was to sit there and collect dust. Along with all the unused LP's taking up space.

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Look at all the extra goodies guys. Dynavector Ruby cantilever mc cartridge, Supex 900 Super mc, Stanton 881S mm, Marcof battery powered moving coil stepup amp, more. Guy I sold it all to in 2009 got a hell of a deal in todays vinyl dollars.
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Hah! I still have a working ST-7 with a Dynavector Ruby!

 

[Frank Dernie]

Yes, very nice. That P-mount was a limiting factor in the Technics. I never saw a MC ever for them.

The SP10 was supplied with a P-mount MC here in the UK, it had the RIAA stage built in iirc.

 

[bloodshoteyed]

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i sure don't want to sound rude, but...
i think my old APC UPS has the same screen

 

[caught gesture]

i sure don't want to sound rude, but...
i think my old APC UPS has the same screen

It’s a twenty year old amplifier and the screen still works so I can attest to its longevity. Something more “classic” would improve the aesthetics. A serif typeface maybe!

 

[Angsty]

The Klipsch cabinet department in Hope AK does some amazing woodwork.
Outstanding American craftsmanship!

But, these rosewood veneers are not factory finishes. This is by a restorer of vintage units. This is what they looked like before restoration:

 

[Ingenieur]