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Well done! Now go eat the biscuits and drink the vino..Beer
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I only cottoned on when I looked at the internals, I couldnt make out the writing on the label on my phone. Ive only just read it !!!!!!  I can sleep now after spending 6 days awake like a zombie trying to figure that out!!!!!!!
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Very well done, you know your vintage tape machines.
I will be spending the weekend rebuilding my pc at home after yet another HDD wipeout after which I will get some more photos of the work up.
I have the capstan motor assembly on the bench at the moment, 4kg squirrel cage motor nearly a foot tall. I can't imagine why they don't make them like they used to.
There are a couple of leaky caps (not surprising as it was built in 1961) and a couple of the cables will need reterminating, having started to perish but will be back in use in a few weeks.

The Vortexian is a worker and have never had to do anything to it unlike my "day to day" machine, a Tascam X1000R which is always in bits.

The project after that is a Pye broadcast mixer which arrived here in several cardboard boxes.
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Thanks Steve. Good to see the tape machine with the lid off. They dont build em like that any more. I love hi fi and studio gear from the 50/60's, its just that no nonsense built like a tank attitude. My garrard 301 is a great example of how machines from that era can stand the test of time and still sound better than so called state of the art equipment.
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That's my pleasure, Glad you enjoyed that.

I should say thanks to tweeterbox who had seen it on the bench but didn't give the game away.

Don't get me started on record players. I recently replaced my SL1200 with a Thorens TD105, not a patch on your Garrard though.
But a friend of mine gave me two "kids" record players from the 60's a couple of years back, they are in a small portable cabinet about 12 x 8, little speaker inside. They need photographing. The ultimate SL1200 slayer!
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Ive also got a 401 which needs a plinth and a 4hf in a solid mango wood plinth which I carved out. Played out once in Southall community and sound checked the 301/3009 mkI alongside a 1210mkII . The bass had an extra octave and the silence when flipping tunes was impressive. The scoops that we had hooked up loved the 301 and the mids and tops were crystal. Feedback was also non existent no matter how hard we cranked it. In comparrison the 1210 was like pulling a curtain infront of the stack!!!!!
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Here is a link to a useful (???) vintage recorders site showing the said E-series (stereo only here):
For sidefills, can we have two enormous things of a type that might be venerated as Gods by the inhabitants of Easter Island, capable of reaching volumes that would make Beelzebub soil his pants.
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Nice one!!!!!Thumbs Up   plenty of old school machines there.
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Originally posted by Nitz V1505 Nitz V1505 wrote:

Ive also got a 401 which needs a plinth and a 4hf in a solid mango wood plinth which I carved out. Played out once in Southall community and sound checked the 301/3009 mkI alongside a 1210mkII . The bass had an extra octave and the silence when flipping tunes was impressive. The scoops that we had hooked up loved the 301 and the mids and tops were crystal. Feedback was also non existent no matter how hard we cranked it. In comparrison the 1210 was like pulling a curtain infront of the stack!!!!!

I'll give your 401 a run for its money - Linn LP12, with SME 3009 S2 improved arm. Even with a crappy dj ortofon on it, tracks like stink, and sounds awesome.

It is commonly cited that you can hear the bearing on a SL1210.....
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IMO a 401 in the right plinth with SME 3009 s2 will sound better. The thing is its what sounds better to you thats the important thing. The LP12 is a great deck and I remember checking one out on a full Keltik set up. Sounded nice. However it being a belt drive deck doesnt do it for me, the idler drive system is more my thing. Technics SL's are fine decks for their application but the sound could be better,this is because of the tonearm .

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