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Old 22-08-2013, 11:13
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If only I could afford a Thorens.

I've seen a Sony PS-LX44P. It's not great, of course, but it's £15 and might just do for now. It's probably on par with my Fisher MT-715 (recently deceased).
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Old 22-08-2013, 11:35
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If only I could afford a Thorens.
You might PM Gomez above?.


I've seen a Sony PS-LX44P. It's not great, of course, but it's £15 and might just do for now. It's probably on par with my Fisher MT-715 (recently deceased).
Probably fairly similar.

I can still remember an old work mates equipment (from back in the early 70's) - a Thorens TD125ab Electronic deck, SME3009 arm and Shure V15 mkIII pickup. He also had B&W speakers (can't remember the model), and (I think) a Leak amp.

Bit sad and 'geeky' when you can remember model numbers from 40 years ago when you only ever saw it once - envy is a terrible thing!!
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Old 22-08-2013, 11:44
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I've sent him a pm, thanks.

I think I'll just spend £15 on the sony, he says it's in full working order, all automatic functions work etc. Can't be too bad compared to my Fisher (R.I.P). Only problem is, the ground wire seems to be a plug of some sort instead of a clip to screw onto the amp. Is this easy to change?
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Old 22-08-2013, 11:50
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I've sent him a pm, thanks.

I think I'll just spend £15 on the sony, he says it's in full working order, all automatic functions work etc. Can't be too bad compared to my Fisher (R.I.P). Only problem is, the ground wire seems to be a plug of some sort instead of a clip to screw onto the amp. Is this easy to change?
Chop the plug off and bare a bit of wire at the end and wrap round the binding post on the amp and screw the nut onto it. I assume the amp has a screw down binding post, fairly common type to have.
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Old 22-08-2013, 11:51
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I've sent him a pm, thanks.

I think I'll just spend £15 on the sony, he says it's in full working order, all automatic functions work etc. Can't be too bad compared to my Fisher (R.I.P). Only problem is, the ground wire seems to be a plug of some sort instead of a clip to screw onto the amp. Is this easy to change?
It might just be a half round metal clip that goes under the screw (bit nicer than a piece of wire).

Failing that it's only a single piece of stranded wire, cut the end off and strip it back.
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Old 22-08-2013, 11:59
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I suspected it would be as easy as that. Thanks!

I'll spend the £15 here, then save for a better TT.
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Old 22-08-2013, 12:03
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I suspected it would be as easy as that. Thanks!
I have seen some where there's a little plastic plug that goes in the back of the original amp, but like I said you just chop them off if not needed - it's so common (or at least was when TT's were common) that you don't even really remember doing it.
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Old 22-08-2013, 18:17
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I've been offered a fully working Technics linear tracking turntable from the 80s, with a new stylus for the grand total of £15 by my uncle. He's keeping the amp, CD player etc. but doesn't have any vinyl anymore (he only ever bought a handful, he preferred cassettes in the 80s and CDs later).

A quick search of Ebay shows in very good condition they go for between £50 and £150 depending on condition and the number of watchers/bidders.

Worth a punt I think.
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Old 22-08-2013, 19:00
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I've been offered a fully working Technics linear tracking turntable from the 80s, with a new stylus for the grand total of £15 by my uncle. He's keeping the amp, CD player etc. but doesn't have any vinyl anymore (he only ever bought a handful, he preferred cassettes in the 80s and CDs later).

A quick search of Ebay shows in very good condition they go for between £50 and £150 depending on condition and the number of watchers/bidders.

Worth a punt I think.
What's the model?
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Old 22-08-2013, 19:09
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I've been offered a fully working Technics linear tracking turntable from the 80s, with a new stylus for the grand total of £15 by my uncle. He's keeping the amp, CD player etc. but doesn't have any vinyl anymore (he only ever bought a handful, he preferred cassettes in the 80s and CDs later).

A quick search of Ebay shows in very good condition they go for between £50 and £150 depending on condition and the number of watchers/bidders.

Worth a punt I think.
Of course it is, to doubt it would be like asking; " Hmm.. but who's pies are they?" from the classic joke, "A pie, a pint and a woman for a quid."

At least you've the opportunity to try it out.
eBay can be OK, but I've often found the best bargains are miles away. I once had to make in excess of a 200 mile round trip, to buy and collect a jukebox, fortunately, it wasn't a wasted journey.
I've also doubts about the ability of some vendors to make up a decent parcel and you can get screwed over the postage/carriage.
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Old 22-08-2013, 21:04
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SL-J300R.
The last time it was played was a couple of months ago when I was round having a listen. Solidly built, and is even programmable in a fashion, namely it can find the space between tracks on an album, and you can press the numbered buttons to tell it to play tracks in a certain order. All things we take for granted today with CD/DVD and the like, but quite revolutionary I would have thought, especially with vinyl back in the 80s/early 90s.

He sold his albums on Ebay, but I asked him to give me a shout if he ever sold the turntable so I am glad he remembers, but I didn't expect to be offered it for that price.

There's one on Ebay at the moment for £150

But having a quick look there's a couple of other Technics linear tracking models, without the numbered buttons and the programming function for around the £60 mark.

I'm going to collect it next week, connect it to my system and see how it sounds with my own system, although it sounded fantastic with his.
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Old 22-08-2013, 21:48
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SL-J300R.
The last time it was played was a couple of months ago when I was round having a listen. Solidly built, and is even programmable in a fashion, namely it can find the space between tracks on an album, and you can press the numbered buttons to tell it to play tracks in a certain order. All things we take for granted today with CD/DVD and the like, but quite revolutionary I would have thought, especially with vinyl back in the 80s/early 90s.

He sold his albums on Ebay, but I asked him to give me a shout if he ever sold the turntable so I am glad he remembers, but I didn't expect to be offered it for that price.

There's one on Ebay at the moment for £150

But having a quick look there's a couple of other Technics linear tracking models, without the numbered buttons and the programming function for around the £60 mark.

I'm going to collect it next week, connect it to my system and see how it sounds with my own system, although it sounded fantastic with his.
Great find, very jealous! I hope it turns out to be as good as it was with his system.
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Old 23-08-2013, 13:52
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Anyone know anything about Prosound L64AA?
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Old 23-08-2013, 14:53
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As far as I'm aware they were a 'fairly' modern disco turntable, Prosound is a budget music/PA gear company.

But I would have thought it's probably better than the Sony and Fisher we've been talking about.
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Old 23-08-2013, 15:00
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Anyone know anything about Prosound L64AA?
From what I can gather it is a clone of the Technics SL-1200 deck. The Technics is the classic disco deck. Built like the proverbial outhouse, more or less indestructible and can take loads of abuse from DJs.

I have used the SL1200 professionally (not as a DJ by the way, I do have more than two functioning brain cells ) and can testify to their durability and they sound pretty good as well. If the Prosound is a half decent clone then it stands a chance of being a decent turntable.

Just be aware however that as SL1200s were favoured by DJs there is a chance that the Prosounds were also used by jocks. As they cost a lot less than a Technics and look almost identical at first glance I wouldn't be surprised if a few cost concious jocks used them.

So it might have had a hard life. Though having said that there is a YouTube video where some bloke compares a SL1200 and the Prosound and seems to rate the Prosound as just as durable as the SL1200. So unless he's telling outrageous porkies who knows.

Might be worth a look though. But there isn't an awful lot of information on the beast that I can find from a spot of googling.
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Old 23-08-2013, 16:42
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Grand, thanks very much. The advert says it's new and £50, so could be worth a go! It's direct drive and if it's comparable to the SL1200, it's certainly worth a go.
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Old 23-08-2013, 16:45
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Grand, thanks very much. The advert says it's new and £50, so could be worth a go! It's direct drive and if it's comparable to the SL1200, it's certainly worth a go.
Certainly sounds like it.
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Old 23-08-2013, 16:51
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The guy said it's still available, just waiting to hear when I can go have a look!
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Old 23-08-2013, 16:55
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The guy said it's still available, just waiting to hear when I can go have a look!
Get straight round as soon as you can
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Old 23-08-2013, 16:58
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You might want to check what cartridge it's got on it. And the state of the stylus. As I said the SL1200 is a classic jocks deck so I would not be surprised if a clone like the Prosound also saw service in a disco.

If it did it might not have the very best cartridge fitted and the stylus may have suffered somewhat from back cueing records. I shudder to think how many bent and broken "needles" I've swapped out in the years before some kind soul invented CDs
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Old 23-08-2013, 17:12
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You might want to check what cartridge it's got on it. And the state of the stylus. As I said the SL1200 is a classic jocks deck so I would not be surprised if a clone like the Prosound also saw service in a disco.

If it did it might not have the very best cartridge fitted and the stylus may have suffered somewhat from back cueing records. I shudder to think how many bent and broken "needles" I've swapped out in the years before some kind soul invented CDs
On the advert, he said it's new and comes with some sort of cleaning kit.
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Old 23-08-2013, 17:54
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You might want to check what cartridge it's got on it. And the state of the stylus. As I said the SL1200 is a classic jocks deck so I would not be surprised if a clone like the Prosound also saw service in a disco.
Most likely so - as it was a disco deck, from a PA manufacturer.

However, he does claim it's new - so shouldn't have seen disco service.
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Old 23-08-2013, 20:02
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On the advert, he said it's new and comes with some sort of cleaning kit.
You didn't see it on Gumtree by any chance?

If it is that one then it does look very tidy. Could well be worth a punt if it really is as good as it appears.
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Old 24-08-2013, 01:21
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Rotel were only a 'middling' brand name, and most of their reputation was for amplifiers (which were generally fairly good), I don't recall them ever having any sort of reputation for turntables though?.
Hmmm. Have you seen the prices of some of their AV setups?

I have a Rotel AV processor -- it's very well screwed together.
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Old 24-08-2013, 01:30
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You might want to check what cartridge it's got on it. And the state of the stylus. As I said the SL1200 is a classic jocks deck so I would not be surprised if a clone like the Prosound also saw service in a disco.
Pretty sure these decks come with a very cheap Ortofon spherical cart/stylus -- something I wouldn't allow anywhere near my collection to be honest.

That's not to say that replacement with a half-decent (but still cheap) AT cart wouldn't fix the problem.
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