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Upgrading Tone Arms

Upgrading Tone Arms

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#61
Tue, 24/01/2012 - 10:58
http://www.audiomods.co.uk/technicsarm.html

it's yet another modded rega but looks interesting although if the mass has been reduced it may not suit the low compliance dj type carts.....check before purchase.

£600 plus is a lot of money....
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Mon, 23/04/2012 - 08:34
Well, eventually took Mk7's advice, got rid of my last Vestax deck and modded my Technics with OL1 and ATP-2XN carts..


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Mon, 23/04/2012 - 09:19
looking good
did you fit them or did you get someone to do it?

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Well, eventually took Mk7's advice, got rid of my last Vestax deck and modded my Technics with OL1 and ATP-2XN carts..


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Mon, 23/04/2012 - 18:13
very smart....glad people are still doing these mods.....4 of 6 technics are done now!!!

feel nice and reassuringly solid i find....wish i could get the bloody styli for the audio technicas easily and cheap still....i shouldn't have plugged them for so long on the forums.....
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Thu, 17/05/2012 - 01:55
Greg - yep, fitted it myself, very easy to do, as Mk7 mentioned, the trick is remembering which screws go where. Nothing more taxing then that. As mine is an older Technics I didn't need to cut any of the rubber mat. Only other tricky bit was earthing the tone arm inside. Then getting the carts on which is always tricky to align, but I'm no expert, took 30 minutes or so.

Darryl - cheers mate. Yes the AT's were not cheap, I guess they're dead-stock now. Just need to run them in now
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Tue, 24/04/2012 - 19:14
Looks good Matt. How's it sound?

May give this a go myself when time/funds allow - i.e. no time soon.

I've got a bog-standard RB300 on my Michell Gyrodeck so the plan might be to swap that for a new arm and put the Rega on one of my Technics (maybe giving it the usual mods first)...
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Wed, 25/04/2012 - 22:05
darrylfunk wrote:
....wish i could get the bloody styli for the audio technicas easily and cheap still....i shouldn't have plugged them for so long on the forums.....


Please remind me what the story with these were again. Have they completely stopped making carts, or is it just certain models that have been discontinued?
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Thu, 17/05/2012 - 02:03
Marius - AT are still making carts and styli. They have however stopped making the ATP-2XN. Which is a moving coil DJ friendly cart, which as Darryl mentioned got a lot of admirers on web forums like here and Wave Music.

Mine is bedded in now after 3/4 weeks of play and is sounding great. In fact it's making my other deck, which has a standard Technics arm and an Ortofon Niteclub E cart, sound a little dull.
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Wed, 23/05/2012 - 09:45
Thanks for the info Matt. Nothing I need to worry about at this point then.
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Wed, 23/05/2012 - 09:45
Thanks for the info Matt. Nothing I need to worry about at this point then.
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Thu, 24/05/2012 - 06:56
tokyomatt wrote:
Marius - AT are still making carts and styli. They have however stopped making the ATP-2XN. Which is a moving coil DJ friendly cart...

Just to be pedantic, the ATP-2XN is a moving magnet cart, not a moving coil.
Definitely a great cart, though. Very strange that they discontinued it, given what a positive reaction it was getting.
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Mon, 28/05/2012 - 09:09
misterharrison wrote:
tokyomatt wrote:
Marius - AT are still making carts and styli. They have however stopped making the ATP-2XN. Which is a moving coil DJ friendly cart...

Just to be pedantic, the ATP-2XN is a moving magnet cart, not a moving coil.
Definitely a great cart, though. Very strange that they discontinued it, given what a positive reaction it was getting.


Of course, I didn't want to be shelling out for a pre-amp as well Laughing out loud Cheers Mr H
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