An acquaintance of mine has a Technics 1210. He is thinking of upgrading it but is also open to selling it and starting again. I never really got on with Techies for anything other than DJ’ing at University, so know little or nothing about them. So
what upgrades are worth doing? (e.g. replace arm)
what is a 1210 in decent nick worth?
Please bear in mind that the owner of the Techie plays drums for a living so is obviously not the sharpest chisel in the tool box. Budget is no more than £500 for upgrades.
I did think that this might be messy, or that I could read 10,000,000,000 pages of bickering on AoS, PFM or that other joint. In the end I am genuinely interested to get the views of the AA on this.
I am a traditionalist, so once everyone has responded, I’ll just tell him what I thought was the correct thing to do in the first place.
I’d certainly recommend the Funk Firm Achromat to help with the ringy platter.
An arm change could also help but yeah, agree that a decent cart would be the most cost effective.
I wouldn’t dick about with it other than change the platter,feet,external box for the motor,new mat,new arm,disconnect the pitch slide,change the bearing and a new power lead.
And an offboard PSU, rebuild the speed control circuit, damp the subchassis further, upgrade the arm wiring, bin the cueing light, add a record weight and get a decent wall shelf.
